Agate

Origin: Mexico
Sample size: 11 x 7.5 x 3 cm
 
  
Fire Agate, the top polished
Origin: Mexico
Sample size: 4 x 4 x 4.3 cm
  
Quartz geode
Origin: Utah, U.S.A.
Sample size: 22 x 17 x 9 cm
 
 
Agatized coral geode, the inside of the geode lined with a botryoidal chalcedony
Origin: Ballast Point, Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A.
Sample size: 14 x 6 x 3 cm
 
Thunderegg agate geode, polished half
Origin: Oregon, U.S.A.
Sample size: 8.5 x 8 x 3 cm
 
  
Agate with quartz filling
Origin: Scott's Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sample size: 7.5 x 3 x 3.8 cm
 
Agate
Origin: ??
Sample size: 7 x 3.5 x 0.3 cm
 
"Thunderegg Agate Geode", polished section
Origin: Oregon, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7 cm across
 
  
 
 
  
Agatised coral
Origin: Withlacoochee River, Florida, U.S.A.
Sample size: 15.5 x 8 cm (top), 3 x 3.5 x 9.5 cm (2nd row), 16 x 10.5 x 4.5 cm (bottom)
 
Polished agate
Origin: Agate Beach, Oregon, U.S.A.
Sample size: 6 x 4.5 x 2.7 cm
 
Agate, polished
Origin: ?
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.2 cm
 
  
Agatized Coral
Origin: Ballast Point, Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A.
Sample size: 7.5 x 5 x 25 cm
 
Origin: unknown
Sample size: 7 x 7 cm, 4 mm in thickness
 
Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 15 x 14 x 8 cm polished geode half
 
"Thunderegg agate" geode half
Origin: Richardson Ranch, Madras, Jefferson Co., Oregon, U.S.A.
Sample size: 10.3 x 9.3 x 3.8 cm
 

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Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

Origin: Chocolate Mountains, Yuma Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Milton Speckels
Sample size: 10 cm wide
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Milton Speckels

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

Origin: River Miass, Ural, Russia
Sample size: 3.5 x 6 cm cut piece
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
Origin: Paraiba, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Sample size: 9.8 x 3.7 x 2.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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