13.2" Polished Agate Slab With Wood Base - Brazil

Polished Agate Slab With Wood Base - Brazil #207050

This is a gorgeous slab of agate from Brazil with a huge quartz crystal mass. It has been cut and polished on both sides for versatile display options. The agate features thin gray and white banding and some amethyst next to the rind.

This slice sits snugly on a custom wood display stand that is removable if you so choose.

Agate is a translucent variety of microcrystalline quartz. Agate primarily forms when silica-rich fluids fill pockets within rock and/or fossils, depositing it along the walls of the rock. This process can result in banding patterns as fluid compositions and impurities change over time. These banding patterns can either form as flat layers, forming agates known as waterline agates, or as concentric layers typical of most agates, depending on the surfaces available for deposition.

Agate has also been known to fill veins or cracks in volcanic rock. Such agates, when cut transversely, exhibit a succession of parallel lines giving a banded appearance to the section. Such stones are known as banded agate, riband agate and striped agate.

Agates from Brazil are mined from decomposed volcanic ash and basalt from the late Permian age (248-275 million years old). In Rio Grande do Sul, the agate "mines" are normally just plowed fields in which loose agates are found and collected. These agates can be very colorful and polish beautifully.

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