Botswana Agate 6mm Round - 15-16 InchBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.

It takes its name from Mooka Creek

Iolite most commonly occurs in shades of blue-gray

which comes in many forms and color variations

Morganite gets its pink hue from the presence of manganese or cesium in the stone

blue or gray

Citrine is a transparent Quartz

Chiastolite is also known as the Cross Stone for the cross matrices of browns

gold and brown

It is often thought of as an all-black stone

Each stone is unique in terms of its patterns

and it might be easy to understand why

Spinel is a hard vitreous magnesium aluminum oxide