2.15" Polished Botswana Agate - Botswana, Africa

This is a beautiful 2.15" wide banded agate nodule, polished to a mirror finish on one side. These agate nodules are collected from the Bobonong District of Botswana, Africa. These agates feature gorgeous parallel banding in a variety of color hues including white, blue, grey, purple, pink and red.

Agate is a variety of microcrystalline quartz (chalcedony) that displays translucence and in some cases banding. Agate primarily forms when silica-rich fluids fill pockets within rock and/or fossils, resulting in deposition of the silica along the walls of the rock. This process can result in banding patterns as the composition and impurities of the fluids change over time. These banding patterns can either form as flat layers or rounded layers, depending on the surfaces available for deposition.
SOLD
DETAILS
SPECIES
Chalcedony var. Agate
LOCATION
Bobonong District, Central District, Botswana, Africa
SIZE
2.15" wide nodule
CATEGORY
ITEM
#247985