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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Apache Agates
Ejido El Apache, Chihuahua Pro., Mexico
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    I seem to not have much of luck with Apache Agates after going thru piles of "leftover" greenish-skinned reddish Apache agates at a Lordsburg rock shop once owned by T. Williams(?) who mined many Mexican agates especially Apache Agates in 1960s. Most agates are clear and hollow and often filled with quartz or calcite and not really interesting, but there have been some cases of highly desired solid agates especially those containing swirls of red, brown, orange and yellow not limited to the typically colorless bands. Recently, Gem Shop Inc made an attempt at mining the Apache mine, and ended up declaring the site to be not commerically viable despite obtaining few hundred pounds of nodules. So the only way to get any good Apache agates is to get them from any old lapidary rough collections or visit the Apache mine itself and hope to find something they missed.
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Rough Appearance:  Green dotted with orangish-red agates with plenty of irregular holes.
Often contain clear agate with some red and orange hues, sometimes with spheres in them.
The shapes of the nodules are not well defined, and som are in cauliflower forms (pseudmorphs).
Some agates will have those little spheres with them.


Not sure if that's really Apache agate, 
but it was found in the pile of Apahe agates
and has same exterior appreance.

You can see the Apache Agates (mostly small) for Sale at the Online Agate & Thunderegg Shop