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Sagenite Agate
Sagenite Agate, or Sagenitic Agate, is any agate having acicular or needle-like mineral or crystal growths.
These "sagenites" usually intersect in a grid or grill-like pattern, but the hair like filaments can even be arranged in fans or sunbursts.
Sagenitic Agates are found all over the world in most agate deposits. Although the occurrence of sagenite inclusions in agate is usually limited. It occurs in nodules or veins. The pseudomorph inclusions get their form mainly from needle shaped zeolites, aragonite, gypsum, goethite and antimonite. Sometimes both sagenite and plume inclusions can occur together.
The word sagenite comes from the Greek word that means "net".
A Sagenite Agate from Mongolia is called Chopstick Agate.
Owls Hole Agate from Owlshead Mountain near Baker in Death Valley, California, is known for its golden, white, black and lavender sagenite inclusions.
Purple Sagenite is not an agate but is a semiprecious stone material from China that is a lovely opaque purple opalized fluorite with a sagenite pattern.
Agate is a member of the chalcedony family, or a microcrystalline quartz, and it has a hardness of about 7 on the Moh's scale.
Metaphysical Properties of Sagenite Agate:
In general Agates are said to be stabilizing and strengthening. It is believed Agate improves memory and increases energy.
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