The Classic
Malawi Agates was mined in 1970s as a result of the
popularity of Botswana Agates. Since they came from the
tectonic activities (earthquakes) area, most agates were
heavily fractured, cutting short any further mining
activities of that kind of agate. They came in the
colors of red, orange, yellow, blue and white colors
with red, blue and white being the typical colors. Small
specimens appeared to have a better chance of being
unfractured than those of larger specimens. There was a
different type of bluish lacy agate recently brought in
from Malawi that has been mislabeled as "Malawi Agate"
which is similar to the Blue Lace Agate/Chalcedony, but
tended to be hollow and lined with druzy quartz. It
would be better to call that kind of agate as "Malawi
Blue Lace Agate". Recently, more reddish agates have
been collected from Gambiri.
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Rough Appearance: Rough and usually narrow nodules
with "seams" of blue agate showing.
Heavily fractured, blue, red and white are characteristic
colors,
