Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Rain Flower Agates
Yangtze River, Nanjing, China
.
Those colorful and strongly patterned agates were found along the
shores of Yangtze River coming from the source somewhere up in the Himalayas
Mountains on the side of Tibet and many agates have been broken and worn
into well rounded flat pebbles. The characteristics of the agates can be
compared to those of Brazillian Agates, Laguna agates and Laker Superior
Agates. Some agates display the colors and patterns so well that it's not
necessary to polish them while some agates would need some grinding and
polishing to remove the crescent-like fractures masking the patterns as
a result of being trumbled rather roughly. So it's always a hard decision
whether to grind and polish an agate or not considering the possible of
revealing any fractures that are not quite noticable in their rough forms.
Like Lake Superior Agates, they tend to look great in water-filled jars.
