Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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Sagenite Agate

A chalcedony agate filled with radiating needle-like mineral inclusions, prized for its starburst and spray patterns.

A chalcedony agate with soft, billowing cloud-like masses of gray and white suspended in a translucent body.

A translucent agate containing delicate three-dimensional feather- or plant-like plumes of mineral inclusions suspended in chalcedony.

Agate containing radiating sprays of mineral needles that fan out like bursting stars within the chalcedony.

A pale chalcedony agate with cloudy, frost-like white patterning suggesting frost on a window or icy crystalline textures.

A chalcedony agate with red, orange, and yellow plume or banding patterns that rise like dancing flames within the stone.

A translucent chalcedony agate containing delicate, feather- or plume-shaped mineral inclusions that branch like soft feathers.

A nodular rhyolite geode-like ball whose plain exterior hides a star-shaped agate or chalcedony core when cut.