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Marfa Agates
South of Marfa, Presido Co., Texas
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    The Marfa agates have been found along the roadcuts for few decades and they are typically colorless (most are hollow) with some waterlines. Recently the agates with strong blue to black (sometimes constrasting with white) colors have recently emerged from the private lands thru a rockhounder who were given permission to collect on the private ranches in exchange for producing lapidary arts out of them for the ranch owners.  Because of the fact that most agates found south of Marfa are hollow, a small percentage would produce solid agates with the classic constrasting colors of white, black and sblue (possibly most bluish color seen in any agates around the world). Some Marfa agates were found to contain the plumes  (3D "dentrities") that are typically black and white, but the Marfa agates may be the only type of agate I know of to contain brown, yellow, orange, green, pink plumes and sometimes even a combo of those colors ("Marfa Bouquet") .

Updated July 2009, new specimen have 2009y in their code names..
Larger pictures of any interested specimens can be provided at request

2009yMAFn001-$5, some fractures 2009yMAFn002-$5
2009yMAFn003-$10
some fractures		 2009yMAFn004-$8 or $15 for the pair
some fractures		 MAF052-$10, chipped edge
MAF025-$5 MAF028-$5 or $8 for the pair MAF005-$5
MAF016-$5 MAF017-$5 MAF018-$5
MAF032-$5 MAF004-$5 MAF031-$5, chipped back
Cut from broken nodule.
MAF036-$5, price reduced
brown plumes		 MAF037-$5, brown plumes
or $16 for the pair		 MAF006-$5

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