AGATE (LARGE, COLOURFUL POLISHED SLAB) - Brazil
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Colourful, cut and polished slab
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, thick slab of natural agate, highly polished on one side with the other side a slightly duller polish. Presented in a lidded gift box.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, thick slab of natural agate, highly polished on one side with the other side a slightly duller polish. Presented in a lidded gift box.
Agate is a beautiful variety of Quartz that slowly crystallised in concentric layers within gas bubbles inside basalt lava. Brazil produces the largest number of agates in the world and these come from the enormous 130 million year old Paraná lava plateau.
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Size: 15 x 15 x 2.5 centimetres
Weight: 838 grams