AGATE (CUT AND POLISHED) - BRAZIL
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Natural cut and polished agate
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, completely natural agate, polished on one side with a natural broken surface on the other. A nice example showing the contrast of polished and natural surfaces.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive, completely natural agate, polished on one side with a natural broken surface on the other. A nice example showing the contrast of polished and natural surfaces.
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: 13.5 x 7 x 6 centimetres
Weight: 776 grams
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