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Sowbelly Amethyst or Vein Amethyst Agate Silver Dendrite Polished Rock
A lovely material with the unfortunate name of Sowbelly Agate, but is also known as Vein Amethyst or Amethyst Agate.
This piece is slabbed and polished on one face, natural rough on the back and it is 3.6 inches long by 1.7 inches wide and .9 inch thick.
It does stand on its own.
It comes from an old collection and has "Creede, CO" written on it.
This is actually a gorgeous piece of banded microcrystalline amethyst, chalcedony and quartz and there are dendritic formations of native silver scattered throughout the chalcedony!
This gemstone material is from the Last Chance Mine (a closed silver mine) in Creede, Colorado and was once considered the throw-away material.
Sowbelly is another name for bacon and is so named because the banding looks a little like purple and white bacon.
