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Agate

New Discovery

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Description
Locality: 
Gunung Merapi Volcano, Yogyakarta Province, Java, Indonesia
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 1.2 × 1.1 cm
Description

A new discovery,sawn by a friend of mine this year at the denver show.

There are only a few exemplars of this at the market.

Bambu-Agate formed during a prehistoric volcanic ash tall over a swampy landscape.

The marsh plants become the nucleus for the botroydal crystallization of cryptocrystalline quartz.

The most nucleuses consist of the common Bambu grass.

Age: Miocene,about 15 million years

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Agate

Variety Of: 

Chalcedony

Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0
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