Dwarves' Earth Treasures: Ansi Agates


.	Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Ansi Agates, Ansi/Sidi Rahal, Morocco, Africa	.

I'm not sure if I got the location correct for this type of agates due to the face that the agate & amethyst bearing basalt beds cover a very large area from Sidi Rahal to Ansi. The area is mined mainly for amethyst geodes with unsusual structures within and the solid nodules (agates) tend to be ignored. The agates are quite unusual for they often contain red stalacitic agates with irregular gray bandings extending to one side called "Liesegang Bands". Red, lavendar, white and gray are the typical colors, and some nodules are known to contain some needle-like geothie inclusions, pseudomorphs and sagenite structures.

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Rough Appearance: Orangish cone-like nodules with pink agate showing and that's dead giveaway
Agates tend to start with red to pink bands before changing to clear bands, commonly with pseudomorph inclusions.


Typical Agate with quartz core	Typical agate with weird banding called "Liesegang Bands"

Stalacitic structures	Psuedomorphs

		From Zaer Zaiane, Morocco

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