Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Rock Shop: Apache Agates,
Ejido El Apache, Chihuahua Pro., Mexico
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I seem to not have much of luck
with Apache Agates after going thru piles of "leftover" greenish-skinned
reddish Apache agates at a Lordsburg rock shop once owned by a pioneer
agate rockhounder who mined many Mexican agates especially Apache Agates
in 1960s. Most agates are hollow and often filled with quartz or calcite
making them rather uninteresting, but there have been some cases of highly
desired solid agates especially those containing swirls of red, brown,
orange and yellow not limited to the typically colorless bands. Recently,
Gem Shop Inc made a mining attempt at the Apache mine, and ended up declaring
the site to be not commerically viable despite obtaining few hundred pounds
of nodules. So the only way to get any good Apache agates is to get them
from any old lapidary collections or visit the Apache mine itself and hope
to be lucky enough to find some. It's interesting to note that some cauliflower-like
nodules had been found from them, and they are form of psuedomorphs possibly
after clay/magnesite aggregates or datolites.
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APA2008n02-$5
APA2008n03-$5
or $8 for the pair
APA2008n07-$8,
classic swirls of red
APA2008n08-$8, or $14 for the pair
classic swirls of red
