🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Is this Agate?

[Axel's Nature's Best]

The striped pattern and colour makes me think it is an Agate nodule of sorts, could someone help me confirm this? Thanks in advance!

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Axel's Nature's Best said:
> The striped pattern and colour makes me think it is an Agate nodule of sorts,
> could someone help me confirm this?

Confirming for you, it is a type of Agate. Your find (or purchase, inheritance, or gift) is a rather unusual specimen, as the banding is more clearly visible on its heavily weathered outside than on its inside. That is the opposite of usual. I would describe your find as a blend of Agate, Chalcedony, and Jasper.

(I'm speaking as a former Geology Major, and longtime "rock-hound," whose most-favorite field hunts are for the Agate varieties.... I still have some of those which I found about 55 years ago in Northwest Georgia.)

 

[ticndig]

The striped pattern and colour makes me think it is an Agate nodule of sorts, could someone help me confirm this? Thanks in advance!

Good morning to you , I'm not a person who can tell you about your finds but was wondering if you knew about the forums down the main page that are all about such things.
https://www.treasurenet.com/categories/geological-forums.844/

 

[gunsil]

I agree with Cannonball, definitely agate, and a nice looking one at that. Both agate and jasper are chalcedony, agate being translucent and jasper opaque. I'm also an old rockhound and a lapidary, I'd slice that baby up and make something out of it.