Description
Location: China
Weight: 2.2 Ounces
Dimensions: 1.6 Inches Long, 1.4 Inches Wide, 1.3 Inches Thick
The item pictured is the one you will receive.
Agate describes many types of banded Chalcedony, a Quartz family mineral named after Sicily’s Achates River, where it was first found. This stone commonly features layered stripes, sometimes showing eye-like patterns, color spots, fossil inclusions, or appearing solid. Known as the earth’s rainbow, Agate’s concentric bands appear in nearly every color nature creates, including clear. Agate has been linked to Neolithic artifacts and was valued as healing charms and decorative pieces since Babylonian times. Its medicinal use continued in ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures and spread through Africa, the Middle East, and Russia. Agate also inspired a renowned German stone cutting and polishing tradition from the 15th to 19th centuries that still thrives today.