Banded Agate

Banded AgateFrom a 2017 discovery in Zimbabwe, here is a beautiful banded Agate specimen. This piece has not been dyed or altered in any way; the color is 100% natural. You can tell when you look at the back of the specimen that the color is consistent throughout, even in the unpolished areas. Our source for the material didn't want to disclose any specific locality information, perhaps to protect their discovery from "poachers". With that said, when we found

The piece has been out of the ground for nearly 50 years at this point

of these specimens available and they are now seldom seen for sale like most classic minerals from Colorado

This piece is essentially a pseudomorph of one iron oxide replacing another (i

golden striated Pyrite pyritohedra

There are two characteristics that make this piece so special

The underside of the specimen shows the hollow

Specimen # BOL711B55

It is essentially crystallized all the way around

For a final aesthetic touch

If you’re a Cassiterite collector

Some of these "fingers" are broken and show a radial growth pattern in the center

Specimen# CO712B44