Miners In Uruguay Get Surprised With A Beautiful Heart-Shaped Amethyst Geode

Turns out, the basalt was harder than usual, so it required quite a bit of work to get it cracked open. But they persevered and did it. And boy, was it worth it!

“After two or three hours, they moved a basalt rock and with the excavator machine, opened a heart-shaped amethyst geode—what a treasure!” explained Lorenzelli.

Yep, you read that correctly: over the span of many, many years, Mother Nature has managed to create a heart-shaped rare mineral geode that the company was lucky enough to unearth.