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Agate from
Luinga Bheag Island, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Luinga Bheag Island, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:240
Long-form Identifier:1:3:240:6
GUID (UUID V4):613f1797-8fea-4c97-93a4-806beb9703c6
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
4.4km (2.7 miles) Arisaig, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
15.7km (9.8 miles) An Sgurr, Isle of Eigg, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
24.9km (15.5 miles) Isle of Rum, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
70.0km (43.5 miles) Dunvegan, Duirinish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
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Foreword Agates, when cut and polished, are among the most beautiful of semi-precious stones. One of...dull, rough and pitted exterior of the pebble, newly released from its ancient lava bubble, and its unpredictable...finding agates in large numbers, in the right area, and of cutting them open to reveal the pattern within...with collectors, especially in recent decades. Scotland is one of several countries rich in agates, so...called 'Scotch pebbles'. The National Museums of Scotland house the national collection of Scottish agates
Book (volume)
80 OXIDES. JASP-AGATE liesembles both Dendritic Moss and Agate Agate in the chalce- donic...structure in Jasp- Agate is, however, much to pseudo-stalactites. larger in amount, and as it consists... it has its variegated colours. About one and a Sutherland. an outlier half miles south of ...in close association with Actinolite, Pdpidolite and Potstone. The filamentous net-work is here brown...from Galston, in veins which Burn Anne, about one and a are segmented by Calcitic partings into brick-shaped
 
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