Dear collectors,
Make sure to check out my website daily until Christmas, since every day until then I'll be uploading a new wonderful specimen.
This week's update is solely concentrating on rare agates from the locale La Manea in Patagonia!
The location is situated about 100 km south of the Paso Berwyn agate area and north of Las Plumas in the north of the Chubut province of Patagonia. The name for the area comes from the locals and means "ankle cuffs for horses". When these agates came on the market, they were first traded under the locality name Mirasoles. They typically have a gray, usually quite smooth outer skin and often have a beautiful nodular shape with occasional spherulites. Another interesting feature a lot of these nodules host in their lower parts are some kind of fragmented settlements.
I got some of this rare old-stock material not long and cut a couple hundred pieces to see what they are like.
I think I may have about 200lb of this material left in Tucson if you want to check it out at my new showplace location in Tucson this year, and cut some yourself!
In this week's YouTube video, I cut 6 of these nodgies to show you what they were hiding inside.
These pieces are now also available on my website, as well as some more unique beauties from this locale!
Thanks to the upper text segment go to Claudia & Ricardo Birnie, as well as Dietrich Mayer, Hannes Holzmann and Johann Zenz, who made this info available here:
http://www.agates.click/media/
Wishing everyone a great weekend,
Joshua with Agatebay-Team
