Blue Agate Geode Half - 4.8 x 4.9 inch

Almost perfectly square in proportion, this Blue Agate Geode Half is built from soft grey-blue banding that curves in loose rounded lobes around a small crystalline pocket set low and slightly right of centre. The layers are wide and gently graded with no hard boundaries between them, giving the face a smooth, worn appearance. A dark edge runs the outer margin and a warm fleck sits within the pocket itself. The polish is even and the piece stands on a flat cut base at equal height and width.

Banded Agate is traditionally associated with balance and harmony, and secondarily with grounding and protection. Evenly proportioned pieces are among the simplest to place, sitting comfortably on a desk, shelf, mantel or side table without needing a particular position or orientation to work. Agate is generally kept in rooms in regular use, and this one stands alone or groups with other specimens of similar size equally well.

Key Properties
Primary Focus: Balance & Harmony
Secondary Focus: Protection & Grounding
Chakra Association: Root, Sacral
Zodiac Sign: Gemini, Virgo
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger, Rooster
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Elements: Earth, Fire
Mohs Hardness: 7
Stone Family: Tectosilicate
Material: Banded Agate
Origin: Brazil
Form: Geode / Cluster
Finish: Polished
Approximate Size: 123 mm (4.8 inches) H x 124 mm (4.9 inches) W
Approximate Weight: 1268 g
Listing: Single unit

Geological Information
Banded Agate is a chalcedony variety of the quartz family, silicon dioxide at Mohs 7 in the trigonal system, formed by cyclic silica deposition within a cavity in host rock. Where consecutive fluid influxes carried closely similar mineral content, the resulting bands grade into one another rather than meeting at sharp boundaries, which produces the soft, worn layering visible across this piece; abrupt band edges elsewhere in the same deposits record more variable conditions. The lobed rather than circular curvature reflects an uneven cavity wall the layers had to follow. Agate is a banded variety of chalcedony within the quartz family, formed through successive layers of silica deposited within a cavity over time. It is common industry practice for coloured agate to be dyed or otherwise colour-enhanced to achieve vivid, saturated tones. Agate takes its name from the Achates River in Sicily, recorded by Theophrastus, and has been worked continuously since antiquity. Sources include Brazil, India, the USA, Mexico and Germany, with this piece from Brazil.

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