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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Calandria Agates
Matachic, Chihuahua State, Mexico
    There's a story of a woman named Anatia who supposedly sang like a Calandria bird. She died and her relatives encountered the agates when digging up a grave for her. The agates seem to be similar to those of classic Casas Grandas agates that they could be confused with them since they shared similar appearances (similar sources?) but the Calandria agates have wider variety of colors especially yellow, pink, orange, gray, blue and purple. It's typical to find colorless but strong banded agates among the Calandria agates and not many come with shadowing effects. They're mostly small, but can come in large sizes. Since they showed signs of having been weathered out of their rock hosts,the fractures are expected in most agates.

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Agate
Large Agate, almost flawless
Agate Agate Agate
Shadowing effect
Bluish-purplish hue
Only one I have seen with that
bold color combo so far.
Agate Agate Agate
Few come with bright colors
Strong purple colors
Extreme shadowing effect
Classic Casa Grandas Agate
Agate Agate Agate
Multi-colored
yellow color
Lucky cut
 
agate

Interesting chromatrology



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