This agate comes from Northern Mexico. These colors are completely natural and the material is very translucent. This will make some gorgeous cabs.
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New Rain Forest Jasper Designer Cabochons
We have a handful of new top quality Rain Forest Jasper cabochons listed in the store. This material is from Australia. We’re very particular about what we cut in this material and love to cut from slices that have cool pools of agate. Here are a few of them.
Inca Agate
This is a new find of agate from high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. It’s being called Inca Agate. Beautiful colors and patterns. The miners say they will start this year’s mining in May, weather permitting. Our experience with mining is the weather never “permits” as early as we’d like. We wish these guys…
Chrysocolla Carvings?
This chrysocolla probably came from Arizona years ago. Today there is some coming out of Nevada and Peru, but none of the new comes close to the quality of the old. We’re going to have carvings done out of this. We wish it were larger. It will only produce a handful of stones at best,…
New Stellated Jasper Designer Cabochons
This is a first for us. Occasionally we’ll happen upon a rough stone in a collection or an estate sale that is unfamiliar to us but we always have been able to figure out what it was. Not this time. We obtained a very cool chunk of rough from an old collection. Never seen it…
Chrysocolla
This chrysocolla came from Arizona. I found it while rooting around in our rough materials. Forgot we had it, but now we’ll turn it into gemstones. We’ll keep you posted!
Blue Zircon
This blue zircon came from Cambodia. It caught my eye today because the color made me think of summer and summer clothes. We’ve got spring fever here at Rogue Gems. Check out our spring fever sale in our Etsy Shop, SparkleQuest at www.etsy.com/shop/sparklequest
Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper
This brilliant orange and yellow jasper comes from Morgan Hill, California which is south of San Jose near the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Unfortunately it is not being mined now, so rough material has gotten scarce. Jaspers are microcrystalline quartz; they are about 7 in hardness and have good toughness (resistance to cracking…
Laguna Lace Agate Cabochons
These are new cabs of an old favorite. Laguna lace agate is one of the most popular agates on the market. It comes from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico. Agate is a variety of chalcedony which has a hardness of about 7 and good toughness (resistance to chipping or breaking), which make this…