Moctezuma agates are
really neat, and they come in a wide variety of pastel (light) colors and
bold colors seem to be rare among them. The Moctezuma agates are one of
very few agates I know of that includes green color among its spectrum
of colors they come in. Green color is always rare in any agates around
the world. Most common colors would be white, ivory, yellow and orange
while red to pink colors (beside green) seems to be most scarce. I noticed
that almost all Moctezuma agates have this outer opaque rim(first band/film),
very useful in identifying the Moctezuma agates. Most desired type of Moctezuma
agates would be those with very colorful and constrasting bands.
The interesting thing is that
some nodules come in the shapes of cigars/tubes, hence, you can get many
stabs of same size, shape and color (not always) from cutting such "cigar-like"
nodules. I consider the Moctezuma Agates to be my favorite Mexican Agate.
