It's becoming hard to get any agates
from Asia
mainly due to the fact that the agates tend to be
sent to China for
carving purposes. The West Java Purple Agate are
passed
as "Purple Chalcedony" and sold by gram just like
chryosprase (green agate).
The colors of the West
Agate range from purplish
gray to purple, hence "Purple Chalcedony" and
occasionally come with white,
yellow and red colors. Some agates contain some good
shadowing effects,
and plume-like inclusions. The colors of most
agates will fade once cut and polished and few
agates will retain their purple colors. Apparently,
the water trapped within the agates enhanced the
colors.
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Rough Appearance: Cone-like to "shoe-shaped" nodules
usually with
heavy pitting.
Bleached agate bands will show on weathered broken nodules
that can
be deceiving.
