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This is Moroccan agate slab from Kerouchen, Morocco. This is a beautiful agate formation in matrix. The colors are that vivid, red yellow and white in a mustard yellow matrix. The back has the full agate formation with an open drusy quartz center. Nice one to polish yourself on the back. There are no fractures and it has a nice polish.
This is a Royal Sahara jasper nodule from Egypt. I thought these were very cool and unique and something I had never seen before. It has a smooth outer skin and it has no fractures and a good polish.
This is a Royal Sahara jasper nodule from Egypt. I thought these were very cool and unique and something I had never seen before. It has a smooth outer skin with a bit knocked off the back and it has no fractures and a good polish.
This is a thick Moroccan end cut agate from Aouli, Morocco. I thought this was a very attractive agate with swirling grey, white and red bands flowing in this agate with a slightly open red center. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Botswana agate from Africa. It is an excellent banded agate with a beautiful polish and no fractures.
This is a Botswana agate from Africa. It is a perfect Botswana agate with great banding with a pinkish brown hue around the center banding. I looked through many flats to find these excellent Botswanas featured in this update.
This is a Baker Ranch Thunderegg from New Mexico. It is a beautiful Baker Ranch Thunderegg with a healed fracture running through the center that is stained red, typical of Bakers. It has no other fractures and has a high mirror polish.
This is a Baker Ranch Thunderegg from New Mexico. This stunning Baker Ranch Thunderegg has a flame with the typical red found in Bakers at the tip. there are two agate zones There is some very light healed fracture/crazing in the bottom area of the flame that does not detract from the beauty of this agate. It has a high mirror polish.
This is a Chinese agate from the Traditional mine in Hebei Province, China. This mine and the other mines in this area of China have closed for the foreseeable future by the Chinese Government. This is one of the largest Chinese agates I have come across and it has gorgeous colors and chromatography, where colors bleed into each other in the banding. It has orange and yellow banding around a crystal amethyst quartz center and at the top are coagulation structures like moss agate. There are a few hairline fractures seen under magnification and a inflow/escape tube filled with crystal quartz. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Chinese agate from Hebei Province, China. It has orange, red, yellow and blue bands around the edges with a blue center surrounded by crystal quartz. It is highly unusual to find a blue Chinese agate, so I had to get it. The blip at the bottom is from a bubble that pushed it's way into the agate during formation. It has a few tiny healed fractures near the edges and it has a mirror polish.
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