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Included here are examples of agates that I feel are a pretty good cross-section of some of the better varieties of material that can be found throughout the United States. Pretty much all of the pieces in this section I have either bought, traded for, or received as gifts from friends. Specimens that are unpolished are shown wet to better show their colors.
New pictures will be added in no particular order. Hopefully, as the gallery grows, all you crazy agate lovers out there will find my collection as interesting and beautiful as I do. Periodically I will include pieces that aren’t agate or jasper, but are noteworthy enough in their own way to be included here.
Enjoy!
Texas, Face Polished Slab
2″ x 1 3/4″ x 1/4″ Marfa plume agate, backlit.
Utah, Unpolished Facecut Nodule
3″ x 1 1/2″ x 1 1/4″ A nice little nodule of Tiffany Stone. It is composed primarily of fluorite with smaller amounts of opal, calcite, dolomite, quartz, chalcedony, bertrandite and other materials.
Southeastern Utah, Face Polished Rough
1 1/2″ x 1 1/4″ x 1″ Small Yellow Cat agate limb.
Nebraska, Facecut Rough
4 1/2″ x 3″ x 4″ An interesting piece of agate with an open vug lined with stalagmite-type tubes.
Wyoming, Facecut Rough
2 1/2″ x 1 1/4″ x 1 1/2″ A sweet little piece of oolitic agate.
Oregon, Face Polished Slab
5 1/2″ x 3″ x 1/4″ A very rare piece of Graveyard Point plume agate with the blue color that came from the original first diggings.
Georgia, Unpolished Slab
4 1/4″ x 4″ x 1/4″ Banded agate with euhedral quartz from the Summerville area.
Nevada, Unpolished Rough
2″ x 1 1/4″ x 3″ A nice pink agate limb cast from Texas Spring.
Oregon, Unpolished Slab
2″ x 1 3/4″ x 1/4″ A cool piece of teal colored petrified bogwood, also known as Larsonite or Gary Green.
Arkansas, Unpolished Specimen
2 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ x 1″ A nice piece of wavelite showing the typical green spherical structures.
Oregon/Idaho, Unpolished Slab
4″ x 2 1/4″ x 1/4″ A great slab of Spiderman dark brecciated jasper with delicate red webbing.
Utah, Unpolished Slab
4″ x 2 1/2″ x 1/4″ A pretty slab of hyalite opal.
Missouri, Unpolished Slab
3 1/2″ x 2 3/4″ x 1/4″ A sweet piece of pretty banded lace agate.
Utah, Face Polished Rough
1″ x 7/8″ x 1 3/4″ A rare piece of a small brightly colored petrified wood limb from the famous Yellow Cat locality.
Oregon, Face Polished Rough
4 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″ Beautiful white plumes fill this piece of Stinking Water plume.
Southern Utah, Face Polished Nodule
1 5/8″ x 1 3/8″ x 1 1/4″ Nice little nodule with sagenite in a blue agate background.
Colorado, Unpolished Slab
4 1/2″ x 4″ x 1/4″ Banded/sagenite amethyst lace Sowbelly agate from the Creede silver mines.
Oregon, Unpolished Slab
4 5/8″ x 4 1/4″ x 1/4″ A beautiful piece of Blue Biggs jasper.
Montana, Unpolished Slab
3″ x 2″ x 1/4″ A cool piece of translucent agate with lots of little black dendritic spherules.
Nevada, Unpolished Slab
2 3/4″ x 1 1/2″ x 1/4″ A pretty piece of Snowville variscite, also called variquoise due to its resemblance to turquoise.
Oregon, Unpolished Slab
4″ x 3 1/4″ x 1/4″ A nice example of colorful moss agate.
Nebraska, Face Polished Specimen
3 1/2″ x 2 1/4″ x 1″ A fun piece of agate with tubes, dendrites, and euhedral quartz that I picked up in northern Nebraska while hunting for Fairburns.
Oregon, Facecut Rough
4 1/4″ x 2 5/8″ x 1 1/2″ A nice piece of Trent agate with druzy-lined vugs and the minerals stibnite and realgar that give it it’s characteristic color and patterns.
Montana, Face Polished Specimen
4″ x 2 1/2″ x 2″ An interesting piece of Bear Canyon agate with the classic black & white fortifications and crystal druzy lined pockets.