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Very pretty and colorful reservation agate. |
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A real nice large agate found in the Cheyenne River near Wasta, SD years ago
by Betty O'Neal. Larry and Betty O'Neal live in Illinois, and the agate is still
in their collection. He sent it to me briefly to touch up the polishing. |
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A Kern agate found in a bag of miscellaneous agate and sold at a mineral
club auction in Denver in the '90's. This agate is about 3" long. Cost of
the agate purchase? $1.00! |
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Another one from Kern or Pine Ridge IR! |
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A nice lacey Nebraska agate. ~1-1/2". |
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A fine little Shoemaker Canyon, SD agate. |
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A real nice Oelrichs, SD agate. Colors from here and Oral, SD often go to
the dull golds and darker reds. ~2-1/2". |
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I
found this agate at the Oral, SD gravel pit back last decade when it was
possible to get permission to hunt there. Approx. 3-1/4 inches. |
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Here's a nice small black and white agate.
Locality unknown. |
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A great little agate (about 1+ inch) I found at pasture 27 north of
Crawford, NE a few years ago. I love the colors, too bad it wasn't larger. Has
some bands that are sort of a yellowish-green, which is a pretty rare color. |
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This is an in situ sample from Antelope Springs in the Black Hills. Trade from Wayne Shortridge via Roger Clark.
~2-1/2". |
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Another Antelope Springs agate. This locale seems to produce a lot of
bright orange. |
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An agate with mostly
bluish-gray bands. The only way you can tell
it's a Fairburn is by the outer banding; otherwise it looks like any ol'
banded agate from New Mexico or somewhere else out west. Locality unknown.
~1-3/4". |
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This is a nicely patterned caramel-colored agate almost
2-1/2 inches long.
Probably from Pine Ridge IR. |
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Another fine Chadron, NE agate. 2". |
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A great agate from Scenic, SD. About 2-1/4" x 2". |
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A four inch full-faced agate from Kern. |
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Here's a fantastic little agate brought to the Contin-Tail gem show in Buena
Vista last August by Mike Parks. If I remember correctly, it was found in a
parking lot in Rapid City! |
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The other side of the above agate. Agate is about 2" long, as I recall. |
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Wow! I love this agate! Doesn't it look kind of like a Laguna? This
one is likely from Kern and about 1 1/2 inches long. |
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OK, here it is folks! The only known northwestern Colorado fairburn type
agate in existence! This was found by a jeweler friend while rabbit hunting
near the Yampa River in the northwest part of the state, back in the 1970's.
Could there be outcrops of the Minnelusa (or it's equivalent) there? There are
only two possibilities: somebody dropped it there in the boonies (highly
unlikely), or it formed near there. About 6". |
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A nice red agate, probably from Nebraska, but not sure. 2". |
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Another nice Oelrichs, SD agate. ~2". |
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A pretty Nebraska agate, not quite 2 inches. |
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A very pretty burn area agate from near Tepee Canyon. Very unusual neon pink
tones. I bought this from a fellow from Rapid City who was at the Buena Vista
Rock Swap last year. |
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A typical Custer State Park agate. They usually have light colored matrix
and tend toward the pastel tones a bit. They also exhibit a tendency toward
large color dots in the banding. |
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Another Custer State Park agate. This great area has been closed to
collecting for years, due mainly to selfishness on the part of a ranger who
wanted the collecting there all to himself, and who was able to get
legislation passed prohibiting collecting by the public. |
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Here's a real pretty agate, polished with one sawed end. Most people I show
this to believe it's a Park agate, but it did not come with a label. About
2". |
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An unusual agate I found in pasture 30 north of Crawford, NE a few years
ago. Almost 2" long. |
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A good medium-large (3") Nebraska agate. It reminds me of many that the late
Bill Zeig (Alliance, NE) donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln museum. I haven't
stopped back there in many years, hopefully they're still on display. |
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Part of an agate nodule sawed in two and polished, approx. 3-1/8" across with red and white pattern and a large
amount of brown matrix. Typical of many agates from north of Crawford, NE. |
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Here's one of two agates I traded for that were collected by Larry Fields in
the Yellowstone River drainage in Montana, northwest of the Black Hills. One
might be a bit skeptical, but the enlargement does show some fortification
banding, although in rather dull colors. |
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Here's the other one that's almost a cross between a Fairburn type agate and a
Montana moss agate. Larry says he has found better ones, but they are buried
under tons of rock and it will take him awhile to find them. He did show us
pictures of a few with much better colors. If more pictures become available,
I'll be sure to post them. |
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