This is a Moctezuma agate from Estacion Moctezuma. The creamsicle orange is found primarily in Moctezuma agates and this one is a floater with a bright white band around a deep drusy crystal quartz center. The clear silica shows unusual black striations running through the lower portion of the agate. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish. It has slight fluorescence in the drusy center seen under UV light.

TCA53 - Coyamito Eye Agate
- Archived
Rancho Coyamito, Chihuahua, Mexico
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This is a Coyamito eye agate from Mexico. This is a cool little agate. It is floating in clear silica and because of that you can see deeply into the agate. There are seven eyes around a agate structure that you can see down into where a structure has formed. The three rough spots are the material that the eyes formed around. The colors are yellow, orange and green, best seen with a good LED light. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.

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WP01 - Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg
- Archived
Nowy Kosciol, Lower Silesia, Poland
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This is a Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg. Pronounced Novy Kosiol (New Church) from Poland. These are direct from the miner in Poland. They come in a myriad of patterns and colors and this is a large one. There are some orbicular structures with reds and yellow throughout. It does have some fractures, but they do not detract from the beauty of this thunderegg.

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WP02 - Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg
- Archived
Nowy Kosciol, Lower Silesia, Poland
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This is a Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg from Poland. Poronounced Novy Kosiol (New Church.) This is thunderegg is direct from the miner and it is a large one. It does have several healed fractures, but it has a great pattern with all of the eyes and swirling bands in in it. The colors are mostly muted browns, tans, and grays with three small open apertures in the face. It has a nice polish out to the edges.

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WP03 - Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg
- Archived
Nowy Kosciol, Lower Silesia, Poland
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This is a Nowy Kosciol Thunderegg from Poland. Pronounced Novy Kosiol (New Church.) This is a nice floater with deep blue banding. The only blue one I found direct from the miner in Poland. It does have some fractures, but it is still beautiful.

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WP04 - Dendritic Turkish Agate-Majestic Opal
- Archived
Inonu County, Eskisehir, Turkey
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This is a Dendritic Turkish Agate also known as Majestic Opal from Turkey. It is found in tuff and the nodules must be chipped out of the tuff. It is mostly white with wonderful little black dendrites formed within and around the floater. The silica around the floater flouresces under UV light. There appears to be a black internal fracture well below the surface and under UV light there is a face near the bottom.

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WP06 - Crater Agate
- Archived
Orellanita Ranch, Chubut, Argentina
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This is a Crater Agate also known as Red Fox Agate found in Chubut Province, Argentina in a matrix of rhyolite. The red center is botryoidal hematite and the black outer edges flouresce because of the uranium salts in the silica. The second photo shows a small hole in one of the pockets and the black band that rims the edge are knocked off in three spots, but there are no fractures and this is a beautiful example of a crater agate.

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