Museum grade lake superior agate Stunning!!!!
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For your consideration....... Museum grade lake superior agate from a new agate deposit in upper Michigan. I recently found a new deposit of Lake Superior agates.They are in a layer of top soil on a huge basalt out cropping.They are wearing out of the basalt from natural erosion.I believe the agates and pieces of basalt are then pushed up into the layer I find them in by frost.I dig in this layer about 12 to 36 inches below the surface.I then sift all the dirt from the rocks and look for nodules and basalt with nodules in them.It is very hard and dirty work!The nodules are well worth the hard work.They are all very colorful and Most of the nodules are psudomorphs.All off them look more like a Condor or a Laguna agate than they do a Lake Superior agate.The awesome agate in this auction is a salmon/pink in color with a bit of very bright orange.It is a solid agate with no quartz.It has a killer pattern and has been nicely polished on one end.The rest of the agate has all the original husk.The husk is mostly hemetite.This agate is one of 4 that I have found this large.Two of them I donated to the Seamans Mineral Museum in Houghton Mi.The one that is left I will list on a later auction..unpolished.This agate is good size at about 2 1/4 X 2 inches and about 3 1/2 ounces.The winner of this auction will have a spectacular Lake Superior
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