New Mexico Agate

[RyanVa]

A few x-Eiserman agate pieces from N. Mexico. A couple of the birds in hand are not agate. I really like the clear variety it's highly translucent.



Agate hafted scraper on a krf endscraper

[painshill]

Ryan
Now, those range from wonderful through to breathtakingly beautiful!

  Painshill

[rokhedred]

Those are absolutely beautiful. Drool...

[turkeytail]

Great looking material!

[Hoss]

Ryan thanks so much for the show. Those are some real nice lithics    

[cgode]

wow, gorgeous lithics Ryan and beautifully crafted artifacts to boot! I see you took those pics in the daylight.....your not still in the dark are you? :laugh:

[roustabout149]

AHHHH!!!  There's that same feelin' I got when I received my quartz point!  Indescribable!!! :woohoo:

[RyanVa]

cgode wrote:

wow, gorgeous lithics Ryan and beautifully crafted artifacts to boot! I see you took those pics in the daylight.....your not still in the dark are you? :laugh:

Thanks buddy. Yep, still in limited power mode. Oh well the tv is boring anyway. Been spending most of my time in the bedroom

[twoshovel]

candy!, thanks for sharing, ts

[Hoss]

Good one Twoshovel looks like  Candy for sure!    

[rmartin]

That is some gem quality material. Glad you showed us.

[ksrocks]

Man those are really nice ones Ryan, thanks for sharing!
Joe.

[greywolf22]

The two white ones at the top are Basket Maker Culture items and are made of Chalcedony.
Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of the minerals quartz and moganite.These are both silica minerals, but they differ in that quartz has a trigonal crystal structure, while moganite is monoclinic. Chalcedony has a waxy luster, and may be semitransparent or translucent. It can assume a wide range of colors, but those most commonly seen are white to gray, grayish-blue or a shade of brown ranging from pale to nearly black.
The others look made of Agate -and- Chert.
Jack