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Product Description
Brazilian Piranha Agate Unpolished Stone Slab
This lovely polished stone slab of Piranha Agate is 5 inches by 4 inches and 5 mm thick.
This translucent banded agate lapidary slab weighs .28 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 4 pictures.
Piranha Agate comes from the State of Parana, near Guarapuava, Brazil and appears to be closely related to what is generally called Brazilian Agate. The name is believed to be a misspelling of its location.
No gemstone is more creatively striped by nature than agate, chalcedony quartz that forms in concentric layers in a wide variety of colors and textures. Each individual agate forms by filling a cavity in host rock. As a result, agate often is found as a round nodule, with concentric bands like the rings of a tree trunk.
The bands sometimes look like eyes, sometimes fanciful scallops, or even a landscape with dendrite trees.
