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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum: How to ID Agate Roughs
CrazyLace Agates
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-Typical colors
: White, gray, yellow, red, orange, tan.
-Typical sizes:
Any sizes
-Typical shapes:
Almost always in broken clunks, some are in form of "bubbly nodules"
-Most distinguishing characteristic
: Twisting & zip-zagging agate bandings, hence, "Crazy Lace".
-Special Notes:
Crazy Agates are commonly pseudomorphs (agate replacing pointy calcite crystals).