4.1" Polished Crazy Lace Agate Sphere - Mexico

Polished Crazy Lace Agate Sphere - Mexico #308265

This is a beautiful, polished "crazy lace" agate specimen, also known as Mexican Agate, collected from Chihuahua, Mexico. It has been shaped into a sphere and polished to a glossy finish to highlight the incredibly detailed banding of the agate. Several quartz crystal encrusted pockets can be found around this sphere. The polish on this specimen is flawless.

It comes with an acrylic ring display stand.

Crazy lace agate, also known as Mexican Agate, is a unique banded agate that comes from Chihuahua, Mexico. It gets its name from complex, lacy patterns swirling through the stone. Colors can vary from cream and orange to red, and are caused by iron and aluminum inclusions in the agate.

About Agate

Agate is a variety of microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony) that displays translucence and, in some cases, banding. Agate primarily forms when silica-rich fluids fill pockets within rocks and/or fossils, depositing the silica along the walls of the rock. This process can result in banding patterns, as the compositions and impurities of these depositing fluids change over time. These banding patterns can either form as flat layers, creating linear patterns known as waterline agate, or as rounded layers, forming more common ring-like patterns. These patterns depend on the surfaces available for deposition.

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