Information on Agates

I no longer have Fairburn agates for sale on my website as a seperate category, as I have sold most of the ones that I am willing to part with for the time being. The few I have left to sell I have been putting on ebay under the seller name respomer.

If you are a Fairburn agate collector you know these beauties are hard to find... you would suspect, once these are gone, there is no guarantee of getting any more of these rare and elusive beauties. I will give as much information about the stones as I know. Some will be absolutely certain, some will be good educated guesses. And in the past I've relied on some identification from Wayne Shortridge, who was definitely one of the best in the business of locality identification.

Stock numbers with NE in them will be Nebraska agates, SD for South Dakota, and WY for Wyoming. TP will indicate Tepee Canyon, SP for Custer State Park, and so on. I will indicate unknown localities as unknown. Some agates will be polished, some unpolished, some partially polished. I may on occasion give the agates a coat of removable mineral oil in order to bring out the color and pattern in photographing.

In regard to prices, at the Crawford Rock Swap in recent years Fairburn agates were mostly quite high for anything decent. I saw asking prices all the way up to $6,000 for a single agate! Prices continue to climb as demand increases and more people hunt the rock beds, making finding good agates tougher each year due to increased competition. Asking prices on old collections skyrocket as well!

I try to provide basic pictures and information for other varieties of agate under each sales row. Agates I have had in the past include Australian, Mexican, Patagonian (Argentina), Lake Superior, Colorado (several types), Keswick (Iowa) and Ocean Jasper (Madagascar).