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This is an Agate Creek agate from Australia. This is a very unusual Agate Creek with several yellow and orange eyes from tubes that were cut crosswise and a small agate structure of banding floating in amorphous orange and red silica, floating in crystalline quartz silica. It has a orange red skin, the surface has a good polish but, you can see and feel lines and pitting around the structures within the agate. I like how it appears to be framed and it has nice depth.
This is a perfect Agate Creek agate from Australia. This agate has beautiful colors and banding. Light pink to light blue, to a darker pink with white banding. It has a seashell shape and clearly shows the intake/escape tube with some crystal quartz showing as white spots but, clearly visible with magnification. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from Mexico. This little cutie has golden brown silica gel surrounding deep wide banding around a deep drusy crystal quartz center. There is even an orange moon orbicular structure. There are some hairline fractures around the edges that do not interfere with the agate structure. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from Mexico. This Laguna has pink and white banding with lots of microspheres throughout. The intake/escape tube has dendritic features in it. It has a quartz crystal center with one tiny fracture near the upper right edge. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from Mexico and weighs 155 grams. This Laguna has amazing parallax effect. Please see the video. This agate is polycentric with two quartz crystal centers. The banding is very tight which allows for the parallax and there are no fractures. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from Mexico. This little Laguna agate has great colors and fortification with an obvious orange intake/escape tube. It also has a small tube structure on the lower right and an A frame banding structure on the lower left. The bands are yellow gold and dark pink surrounded by white fibrous bands. There are some small fractures within the agate formation at the top but, they do not detract from the beauty of this Laguna agate.
This is a gorgeous Laguna agate from Mexico. It came to me through a european collection and it has classic Laguna coloring within the banding, orbicular structures and the dark red surrounding the crystal quartz center flowing into the intake/escape tube. There are no fractures. It has a mirror polish but, it appears that it could use a more refined polishing to acquire the ultra smooth surface polish. You can see under magnification that the surface still appears a bit rough but, not scratched. It is still gorgeous as is, I am just disclosing my observations for you.
This is a Condor agate from a new locality in River Crossing, Argentina. This Condor agate has beautiful orange banding and blue chalcedony with tiny red microspheres throughout the banding. It is best seen under good light such as in the closeup photo. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Condor agate from the new locality of River Crossing in Argentina. This is a dark but, colorful Condor agate with blue, red, yellow and gold banding around a dark red center with quartz crystal in the slightly open aperture. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is an incredible pair of Patagonia agates from Argentina. This pair of Patagonia agates are set in milky silica chalcedony with a two toned pink banding surrounding a crystal quartz center that flows out the bottom of these two halves. They have a smooth skin. There are no fractures and they have a mirror polish. Just stunning!
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