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Casas Grandas Agates
Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico
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    The agates of Casas Grandes and Parcelas tend to be very similar in cut/polish appearance that they sometimes can be confused for each other. I wasn't even sure which is Casas Grandes or Parcelas until I finally got a pail of true Casas Grandes Agates. It is common to find Casas Grandes colored white to gray with "snow" dots in them, and there had been a number of agates coming with the color of pink, blue, lavender, yellow, orange and purple. What distinguishes the Casas Grandes Agates from Parcelas Agates is that Casas Grandes Agates tend to look bit more rusty (yellowish) while Parcelas Agates coming with more reddish skins. Those agates are one of few oldest agates mined in Northern Mexico (1955), but ever since, there had been some sparse mining of those agates due to having to work on the hard andesite bedrock to get at the agates as well as the fact that about 75% of the nodules contain nothing but siberite (brown "calcite").

Updated October 2010 new specimen have 2010y in their code names..
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can be provided at request

2009yCAGn025-$20, some shadowing 2009yCAGn025-$20, some shadowing
or $32 for the pair
2010yCAGn009-$20
some shadowing effect		 2010yCAGn009-$25 or $35 for the pair
some shadowing effect
2009yCAGn027-$20 2010yCAGn009-$15
exteme shadowing effect

2009yCAGn029-$25, or $20 for the pair large size,some fractures

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