US Dollar
Australian Dollar
Euro
CAD
Product Description
Brazilian Piranha Agate Polished Rock Nodule
This lovely stone nodule was slabbed and polished face, left natural everywhere else. It has a natural druse crystal pocket center.
It is Brazilian Agate, also known as Piranha Agate, and it is 3.7 inches by 3.26 inches and 1.45 inch thick.
It does not stand on its own.
Piranha Agate comes from the State of Parana, near Guarapuava, Brazil and appears to be closely related to what is generally called Brazilian Agate. The name is believed to be a misspelling of its location.
No gemstone is more creatively striped by nature than agate, chalcedony quartz that forms in concentric layers in a wide variety of colors and textures. Each individual agate forms by filling a cavity in host rock. As a result, agate often is found as a round nodule, with concentric bands like the rings of a tree trunk.
The bands sometimes look like eyes, sometimes fanciful scallops, or even a landscape with dendrite trees.
