Photo Gallery - Customer Agate Finds

Rockhounds have been scurrying the spring beaches looking for treasurers left by the waves of last fall and the icebergs of the winter. One of the owners of our local grocery store, Jacque Bugg, found a fantastic ¾ pounder east of town. She is probably getting tired of all the people who go into her store asking to see this incredible gray fortification agate.

My friend, Renee Beaver-Stocking, has also been combing the beaches. She found one of the most unusual Lake Superior agates I’ve ever seen. The side pictured below has some banding intermixed with eye-like formations. The other side (not shown) is solid banding.

Another agate hunting friend of mine, Jill Phillips from Grand Rapids, spent more than a week in the Grand Marais area with her husband, Gerald. Jill found this 1/3 pounder as well as a carnelian floater agate. The gray/white agate has a zillion bands arranged in a lacy fortification pattern that is roughly the shape of the U.P. The bands do not show up very well in a digital photograph. Her husband is going to face polish the agate. If it dresses up well, the agate may appear again so you can see the before and after picture. Her other sandwich agate has intense carnelian bands with white floater bands.