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~*Fire Agate*~
Mark and I will be visiting the Deer Creek fire agate mine in Arizona later this month. We're participating in the Deer Creek Fire Agate Invitational offered to jewelry artists this year by the mine owners.
We're very excited to see one of the more famous mines producing one of our favorite gemstones:)
Fire Agate is described as a variety of agate containing inclusions of goethite or limonite, producing an iridescent effect or "fire".
The color layers are often described like breath on a pane of glass. The thin layers in this material diffract light back to the eye in rainbow patterns of red, green, yellow and blue. The beautiful colors in fire agate may appear as tiny pinpoints, bubbles, bull's eyes, flashes, specks, swirls or even as a combination of patterns making for endless possibilities. The world's fire agate deposits stretch from southwest United States to northern Mexico. Fire agate has been reportedly found in at least 15 locations on Arizona such as Slaughter Mountain and Deer Creek.
These are photos of various fire agates from our personal collection~
This is one of our favorite fire agate gems displaying a pattern described as "the molten effect" or the "crackle effect".
This is when the
finished stone displays internal fissures of color, something like cooling
lava.
This is a fire agate gem with an incredible eye-like banded pattern.
We call this gem "The Snake Eye".
An incredible fire agate hand carved to expose the gem's natural fire layer.
This beautiful Slaughter Mountain fire agate has a mirrorlike or metallic
look that is very unusual.The colors refract with extraordinary brightness including the "royal
mist", which is a pink-purple, transparent colored chalcedony layer
above the primary, opaque colors. ~*This super bright stone comes from Aguas Calientes Mexico~*
~*Powerfully purple, this gemstone comes from Slaughter Mountain Arizona~*
Purple fire agate gemstone with fringe colors of green,red,blue and yellow/gold.
This is rare variety of Fire Agate showcasing an uncommon spray of sagenite needle-like inclusions~
Fire Agate pendant by Jessica Dow and Mark Anderson
"California Poppies"
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