I didn't pay
much attention to the dentritic agates
coming from one of several agate sites of Madagascar mainly
because they
tend to be too big for me to cut. The agates are heavily
weathered brown
skinned agates showing bandings, "eyes" and other structures
and the
true colors are well hidden within them that can be revealed
only by cutting
or breaking them. The agates tend to be colorless to white,
sometimes
with yellowish tint and varying amount of dentritic
inclusions. Some
people tumble-polish the rough pieces to bring out the
dentrites
along the surface of the agates, hence, "Dentritic Agate".
In some rare cases, we can have the agates
from that
location with showy brown, orange, black, yellow and white
colors, and sagenite
structures.
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Rough Appearance: Brown to
tan river-worn "pebbles" with indented
band lines.
Agates tend to be colorless
often lined with black dentrites and complicated
banding.
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