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This is a River Crossing Condor agate. It has striking colors best seen with good light. The bright orange band at the edge really sets it apart and the red surrounding the open crystal quartz aperture is striking. It even has a drusy pocket in the inflow/escape tube. It has two healed fractures that do not detract from the beauty of this agate. It has a mirror polish.
This is a stunning Dryhead agate from Montana. It is rare to find such a beautiful fully banded Dryhead agate. This one is perfect. It has no fractures and has all of the colors associated with dryheads, including a well defined inflow/escape tube. The center has three well defined rings of crystal quartz around the white center that also has crystal quartz inside it and a slightly open aperture. Excellent specimen. It has a mirror polish.
This is a very unique River Crossing Condor agate. It is a tight floater and the center is also floating in clear silica around the red band. The colors of gold, orange red and yellow can be seen best with good light. There is a low spot at the top and few tiny pits seen under magnification. It has a tiny closed drusy center and a mirror polish.
This is an exceptioanl Polyhedroid end cut from Brazil. It is a dark one but it has orbicular features along one edge, a white agate structure in the center with an open drusy center. It has a fracture near the right tip that really looks more like a split with the quartz crystals lining up next to it on both sides and there is a tiny closed crystal pocket on the tip. The whole polyhedroid has tiny quartz crystals all around the edge just under the skin of the polyhedroid. It is primarily black with more opaque silica all around it defining the the cast it grew into. Polyhedroids with a complete cast are rare. The left tip is not complete but does not detract from it's beauty.
This is a beautifully banded Chinese Fighting Blood agate. It has super tight banding with shades of gold, brown, dark orange, beige and green bands with a crystal quartz center surrounded by a dark grey banding. There are no fractures although a little bit of the skin has pulled away from the lower right side. It has a beautiful mirror polish.
This is a Chinese Fighting Blood agate from the Traditional mine in China. It is a striking gold banded agate with rare black area in the center surrounded with a partial red band and a deep white band with black micro spherulites and a slightly open center leading into a development channel. There are a few stress fractures around the upper edges but, they do not detract from the beauty of this agate. It has a mirror polish and the coloration of this agate is also referred to as chromatography when the colors blend together.
This is a Coyamito agate from Chihuahua, Mexico. This is a beautiful white and gold banded Coyamito floater. The bands go deep into clear silica. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Bouquet agate from Marfa, Texas. This is a lovely piece of Bouquet agate which is very hard to come by and this is a delicate piece with rosey pink plumes floating in clear silica with a milky sky and clouds in the upper background. There are open areas on the face including indentation where the plumes meet the face. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Botswana agate from S. Africa. This is a beautiful Botswana agate with a pink center and beautiful deep white banding throughout the agate. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from Sierra San Martin, Chihuahua, Mexico. This Laguna is a beautiful polycentric agate with a gold banded agate with an open drusy center next to a closed fire engine red agate formation on the right, both floating in clear silica. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
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