AGATE PAPERWEIGHT - BRAZIL
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Cut and polished paperweight
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive and colourful agate, polished on one side.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
An attractive and colourful agate, polished on one side.
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.
Presented in a lidded gift box.
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Size: 12 x 8 x 1.8 centimetres
Weight: 383 grams