Red Botswana Agate 10mm Round - 15-16 Inch Agate8mm Rhyolite was named "streaming rock"

Rhyolite was named "streaming rock" because of its beautiful bands

" an allusion to the moon-like white reflections of the mineral or to the quality of the light transmitted from the stone

it lightens because of further weathering and becomes Malachite

Elephant Skin Jasper

manganese and other metallic oxides captured during the forming of the rock

Red Botswana Agate 10mm Round - 15-16 Inch Agate8mm Rhyolite was named "streaming rock"Red Botswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.