What Do Agate Rocks Look Like?

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What Do Agate Rocks Look Like.

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Alas, in the natural state they are quite unprepossessing, resembling dull finding potato-shaped rocks to the untrained eye. However, with some sense you will be able to spot one with maybe a translucent, coloured patch, showing the basal agate straight through the eroded rock surface. Hunting on a sunny day helps accentuate this feature. Agate-bearing rocks often have a pitted exterior, or maybe a waxy appearance.

What Do Agate Rocks Look Like?

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at a broken area of rock. Agates can often be found in stream beds or on lake shores where the waters tumbling operation over the millennia have ground away the rough exterior and polished the agates into bright, of course recognisable gems. Best join a Rock-Hound club and learn how to quest for agates from the old timers!

How Are Agates Formed.

It all starts with volcanic rock containing a lot of carbon dioxide & water which bubbles out leaving a "Swiss cheese" texture. When water containing dissolved silica with alkalis percolate straight through these holes, the minerals are precipitated out slowly in the rock voids, producing those glorious patterns & colours of Agates (agate is a form of Chalcedony, which in turn is a form of Quartz, one of the most common minerals on
Earth). The alkali in the solution can assault any iron in the rock, producing bands of iron hydroxide in spectacular forms and combinations with other minerals gift in the saturated solution. Agates have also been found in Dinosaur bones, so high temperatures or pressures are not required for their formation, just patience. These agates often maintain

the host customary shape, after the host (tree, or root etc.) has eroded away, hence their name of Limb Cast Agates

Some common Agate Types:-

Onyx is a form of agate where the bands are white, alternating with other bands of in general black, but also of brown or red, depending on the mineral combination of the surrounding area.

Moss Agate is a Dendritic Agate, finding like it has vegetative inclusions (similar to Amber) but in reality, the Dendrites (from the Greek Dendron - Tree) are usually minerals like oxides of Manganese or Iron, which have percolated into cracks in the agate and then deposited out.

The transparency of the agate allows these dendrites to be seen within the agate.

Turritella Agate are formed from the Turritell shells, a fossilised maritime gastropod with an elongated spiral shell or many whorls.

Petoskey Agate is an agatized coral found in the Ottawa region of Canada, chiefly colse to the town of Petoskey, in river beds.

Agates are truly one of the most gorgeous minerals, to be found in a spectacular, range of colours, shades & patterns. When sliced and polished, they are the "Crown Jewels" in any mineral collectors display!

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