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Lake Superior Agates

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River was too high to fish today so I checked out a small gravel pitfull-26589-34498-008.jpg

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I only spent about 45 min looking and I found these, might have to go back one of the next days to check out the other 90% of the pit.

Sorry about the poor quality pics, stupid cell phone camera doesn't work too well in low light.

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Rick, I love the one with the amethyst center! I've been lucky enough to find only one of those in all the time I've spent searching for these silly rocks. I'll have to post a picture of mine sometime. It's not huge, but it's a pretty one.

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Awesome pics Dmopz!

I must say, I think you got the better of me on that hunt laugh I can't complain though, I found some nice lines myself.

I'm particularly partial to that strange mossy looking agate you found. The one to the left of the quarter in the picture with 4 of them shown. It's just so unique! I can also personally verify that the last white agate is indeed extremely unique... it looked really odd in person and I liked it a lot.

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Found this agate this morning-bout the size of a golf ball..she sure is pretty

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I found this one last Sunday- probably one of my favorites-also about the size of a golf ball..the pic really doesn't show the character of this one but I just love its tight white banding

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Found these outside a woman's house that I tuck pointed, and she said i could have 'em. They're not lakers I know, but anyone have any ideas as to its origin?

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Cool specimens though!

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More awesome pics Dmopz, all of them! I need to get out and look for some myself, been so busy the past week and then went fishing. I would have been better off looking for agates though, the fish weren't biting!

Which was the almost baseball sized one you found? I can't really tell from the pictures.

About those last 2. Are you sure they aren't Lake Superior Agates? I'm no super expert, but I don't see why they couldn't be.....

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Thanks port! I'm fairly sure they aren't lakers because of the host rock the agate is in.

the 'baseball' is the third one down in the post before my 'non lakers'

I also found another one bigger than that but I didn't post it because I couldn't get a decent pic of it, the lines in it are so fine...but heck I will post it anyways

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These pics really miss the mark at showing how beautiful this agate really is. Next time we meet up i'll have to bring it so you can really appreciate it

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So, Dmopz was kind enough to let me borrow his saw and I attacked a few of my stones with it this afternoon. I mainly went after the boring ones, because I just can't bring myself to actually cut open nice agates and make them smaller.

These are a couple of the more interesting ones that I'm glad I hacked open though.

The white one is about 6 ounces total, so it was a decent sized stone.

The boring outside.

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Pretty nice inside. Not sure what type of agate you would call this, but it's definitely not your normal lake superior agate.

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Again, another boring outside.

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Nice glassy agatey looking inside. Still not sure what type of agate you'd call it, but it's definitely "agatish"

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