Premium Mozambique agates cut open on my saw! 

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That is the coolest idea! The treasure hunt for kiddos makes me smile so much. 😊

@@KS-jm9uo I posted it on the town facebook site and they had so much fun!

What a beautiful idea! ❤👍

What a wonderful way to get kids engaged and interested in rocks! We need more people like you in the world!

That is really cool, bravo 👏 excellent idea 💡!! We do need more people like you...❤

I think they look like ears themselves lol

@@domfishn You're right, I took a second look and they do look like an ear shape. Lol

I literally thought that after the first one. I was like those would make gorgeous earrings!!

For me it's the holy moly. 😊 That's my own go to expression for something special.

He does good work!

I’m glad!

Depends on the type of fractures. Most are natural or based on mining. "Human" fractures have often shattercones, sharp edges and you see free, white fissures. Natural is more smooth, colorshift by bleaching etc. dirty fractures. Transport can damage, but think about, it's a rock, so won't damage each other so easy. Mozambique tends to be brittle. They don't like much pressure or jumping while cutting or any stress and heating. This causes hairline fissures in seconds at this location. There ist lots of internal tension.

Thanks!!

What’s there is what’s there

@@AgateDadyeah. I reached out to Joshua, most of his rough goes through gem shop or highland park.

I’m still laughing, no worries :)

That is raw

Do you really think there is someone sitting around cracking/cutting agates and put them back together for selection in low, premium grade and leave bads one for profit inside? You have a stone which filled a cavity millions of years ago. The host rock will suffer weathering, crumble away or resist till today. The agates may stay fixed in a stone wall, lay in crumbled stone/dirt or beeing transported by rivers etc. You have tectonic activities which put pressure on the stone, change in temperature, maybe ice etc. and when mining hit them with a shovel, excavator etc. Some stones break during mining actions, other did this millions of years ago. It is extrem rare to find both parts of an old broken nodule. This is an absolute natural process. Noone peaks inside; usually. In Morocco is is commen that they hit the agates with a hammer in order to seed what to exspect in order to increase the money they can claim. But this is caused by greed and a massiv nuisance. The stones suffer on this stupid behaviour. They get shattercones and cracks down to their core depening on skill and luck. This limits the options for cutting and block often the best way of cutting. You have to hope these cracks won't reach as deep as you tend/can to cut your stone. You may think you have a valueable stone by banding, color... but thacks to this behaviour the cracks reduce the value to 30% or lower and the stone may brak and damage you sawblade etc. Premium quality means colorful, fine banded, parallax, rare structures, maybe pseudomorphs or rare structures, full face/banding (not cutting in windows or something like this), no cracks and fissures and at last good finish.

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