AGATE (CUT AND POLISHED) - BRAZIL
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Natural cut and polished agate
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, completely natural agate, cut in half and polished all sides, including the back. This is a lovely specimen with a mirror polish.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, completely natural agate, cut in half and polished all sides, including the back. This is a lovely specimen with a mirror polish.
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: 16 x 9.5 x 4.5 centimetres
Weight: 1.22 kilograms