High-grade Turkish stick agate. Slab #3 faceted Quartz teardrop surprises you with

Quartz teardrop surprises you with apparently random shafts of Rutile running through it like straws in a whirlwind

is graded “brilliant

The material is quite clean and should facet a beautiful

and the price has been adjusted accordingly

and stopped collecting in the mid-70s

High-grade Turkish stick agate. Slab #3 faceted Quartz teardrop surprises you withHigh grade Turkish stick agate is very difficult to find. The agate beds just north of Ankara, Turkey appear to have run out of the high quality material such as this. Luckily, I bought a large quantity of rough when it first became available, and have cut many classic and beautiful slabs such as this from it. This spectacular slab is 3 x 3 and 3 to 5 mm thick, and almost completely fracture free. This would be beautiful as a specimen, or could be cut