CUSTOMER AGATE FINDS
August 2009
The cool windy weather has tested agate hunters during the past month. There have been a few good days, though, and a few great agates found locally.
The first one to be featured this month is a different looking brecciated agate found by Larry Feist of Grand Rapids, MI. A breccia is a fragmental rock whose components are angular, which compares to a conglomerate that has water worn rounded pebbles. This brecciated rock seems to include fragments of amethyst and chrysoprase, as well as some banded sections.
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While attending the Moose Lake Agate Days show, I also was shown this very large brecciated agate. Notice how the matrix in which the fragments are cemented is completely different than the Feist agate.
Just the other day this ¾ pounder was brought into the museum by Jeff Robbins. It has almost a perfect concentric banded face on top. This treasure was found by Jeff Robbins from Lake City, MI. He found it on the beach near Muskallonge Lake, east of Grand Marais.
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