Amazing Agates of Brazil

Agates come in many colors of solid and banding with 'eyes' and crystals that shine.  Some of the most beautiful agates come from the mines of Brazil, but agate is found all over the world.  


Agates geodes are often cut and shaped into bookend sets or sliced and polished pair slabs or singles.

Agate is a form of quartz having submicroscopic grains of cryptocryastaline quartz, called chalcedony, in a massive form, often filling voids as veins or geodes. 

Agate is often found with color bands due to impurities in the fluids from which the agate is deposited. Agate is usually translucent, sometimes transparent, and has a hardness of 7, but has no crystal structure (amorphous).   

Shop our Etsy store for a selection of agates in bookend sets and slabs mounted on wooden bases for easy display!

Beautiful Earthy Geode Agates

This is a great find from my Tucson trip this year and with geodes, you never really know what you are going to get until you crack them open. And these set of 5 bookends are no exception when it comes to high quality and stunning beauty. When I found these bookends I was hooked by their brilliant colors and striking drusy centers. They are all very heavy and solid, highly polished on three sides with the backside left in the rough. 

Each one is unique in color and the way they have been cut. It took a large diamond tip saw blade to cut these magnificent treasures. The colors of each range of sunsets to earthy tones and skylines. You have rusty orange with hues of cream, another in creamy white with hues of gray, a striking changes of blues, and the other two are in light colors of beige and hues of very light pale pink. 

What I think makes these bookends so unique and stunning is the drusy centers. Each center is a complimentary color to the agate, some are in a dark colors and others more of a pale. They all are so full of sparkle and really catch the light, a perfect compliment against the very high polish of these geode agates colors. The pictures really do not do these the justice of their beauty.