Banded Agate metallic This beautiful specimen has a

This beautiful specimen has a striking color combination with gemmy colorless "Achroite" terminations

gemmy multicolored crystals sitting on a thin slab of Feldspar

I would say that this one is certainly worthy of being called a "competition quality" display piece

The Rhodochrosites from this mine are not the typical blocky rhombic habit like those seen from a lot of other ore bodies in Colorado

This is an example of a non-pegmatite gem mineral for which many collectors probably do not have a good specimen in their collections

Banded Agate metallic This beautiful specimen has aFrom a 2017 discovery in Zimbabwe, here is a beautiful banded Agate specimen. This piece has not been dyed or altered in any way; the color is 100% natural. You can tell when you look at the back of the specimen that the color is consistent throughout, even in the unpolished areas. Our source for the material didn't want to disclose any specific locality information, perhaps to protect their discovery from "poachers". With that said, when we found