AGATE  FIRE BEAD

This is a  large natural agate  bead which has been heated to create a unusual crackeled effect.The stone is still strong and it would be ideal as the centre piece in a pendant.

Well polished both sides.

Drilled

Size  14 mm app

Weight 82.85 cts app

No gemstone is more creatively striped by Nature than agate, chalcedony quartz that forms in concentric layers in a wide variety of colours and textures. Each individual agate forms by filling a cavity in host rock. As a result, agate is often found as a round nodule, with concentric bands like the rings of a tree trunk. The bands sometimes look like eyes, fanciful scallops, or even a landscape with trees.