Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: Malawi Agates
Malawi, Africa
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Malawi Agates was mined in 1970s
as a result of the popularity of Botswana Agates, but since they came form
the tectonically active (earthquakes) area, most agates are heavily fractured,
cutting short any further mining activaties. They come in the colors of
red, orange, yellow, blue and white colors with red, blue and white being
most common colors. Small specimens will have better chance of being unfractured
than those of larger specimens, but it is possible to find large speicmesn
with minium number of fractures. There is a different type of bluish lacy
agate recently brought in from Malawi that has been mislabeled as "Malawi
Agate" which is similar to the Blue Lace Agate but tend to be hollow and
lined with druzy quartz. It would be more proper to call that kind of agate
as "Malawi Lace Agate".
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Rough Appearance: Rough and usually narrow nodules with "seams"
of blue agate showing.
Heavily fractured, blue, red and white are characteristic colors,
Unusually few fractures for its large size.
