Crazy Lace Agate Rough from Mexico - $9.50/lb

Crazy Lace Agate is very popular with jewelers and cut stones sell quickly. It has a widely varied structure and coloring. The wild patterns are the result of a replacement of dogtooth calcite by agate.

As with all of the other species in the quartz family, agate takes a high polish with cerium oxide, but also takes a fine polish with tin oxide and diamond. Mohs hardness 7.

Ruler is in INCHES.