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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Rain Flower Agates
Yangtze River, Nanjing, China
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  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 are comparable 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. 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 best in water-filled jars.
    Recently, the supplier of the agates is having some trouble (I didn't ask what sort of trouble) that I haven't been able to get more from him.

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Rough Appearance: Rounded and flat river-worn pebbles with clearer details than beach pebbles.
Can be confused with some Lake Superior agates found from the leaches.

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Strong shadowig effect, polished Polishd