Dwarves' Earth Treasures Online Rock Shop: 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") .
