Such a shame, gem quality fire to....

[Steve1236]

I rarely find fire agates with the darker than rootbeer layers that have the brightest eye popping gem quality fire and I found one but after I got the druzy quartz crystal clusters off I noticed a crack running through the whole stone ... Hot pink fire in there to smh

 

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[Kray Gelder]

That is a great looking piece! Oh, now it's two great looking pieces! Still a keeper.

 

[Steve1236]

Such a bummer, I got it out of this big cluster/vug, this is the bottom half, it's a pretty cool specimen.

 

[IAMZIM]

Them's the "breaks"! Nice piece though!

 

[smokeythecat]

Nice rock! Maybe make two smaller items.

 

[Steve1236]

I might just set it aside for now, those colors are really eye popping in that dark layer, if you zoom in on the first pic, a little of the topside of the botryoidal dark layer is showing a really awesome super bright hot pink color of fire, it might be worth seeing if I can stabilize the stone, idk I'll see how next winter goes out there, depending if I find anything gem quality or not ya know.

 

[Kray Gelder]

Such a bummer, I got it out of this big cluster/vug, this is the bottom half, it's a pretty cool specimen.
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That looks like super fragile material to work with. What are you using to extract the agate? A dremel tool?

 

[Steve1236]

It's hard to see what your are digging up out there, not easy to get a lot of water back to my spot so I usually just load up on any material with quartz crystals or if I can see any dark colors but there's a lot of dried clay and dirt stuck to everything you dig up so I mostly dont know what I have till I can pressure wash everything when I get home with it, this was one that I saw crystals only, when I washed it it was a chunk/clusters/vug, I used a small chisel to bust this one open, that chunk is just a specimen, I wont touch it but maybe give it the wet look.
I do use a dremel and attachment when I'm carving.

 

[ToddsPoint]

You've got great rock hunting in AZ. Better in winter, I'm sure. My rock hunting has been curtailed this year by all the rain. The rocky lakeshore I hunt for glacial till materials is under 15' of water. There's always next year. Gary