Grape Agate 3

Description

Grape Agate/Botryoidal Amethyst from Indonesia

Here’s a special formation of botryoidal agate that forms a combination of fine brilliant purple radial aggregates “balls” that resemble a bunch of grapes in a purple to lavender specimen that has two different sides with a flat plate with raised ridges on one side and a blizzard of small to large lavendar to silvery grey spheres. When viewed through Opti-Visors or magnification, each individual “ball” has finite crystallized drusy-like surfaces. New specimen from Sulawesi, Indonesia from the 2023 Franklin, North Carolina Show

specimen weighs 3 oz or 0.19 lb. (87g) and measures 2.9 x 2.1 x 1.09 inches (7.3 x 5.3 x 2.7 cm)