Wholesale Purple Agate Small

DESCRIPTION Agate is a variety of the quartz group, a type of chalcedony in different colors that can have microcrystals and chromatic bands. It is of volcanic origin and there are a wide variety of types and all very different from each other. STORY Agate is formed when magma is ejected from the Earth's interior to the surface by volcanoes. Its name comes from a river in Sicily called Achates, where they say that the first gems of this mineral were found. Much revered by the ancients, it was considered the stone of science. Agate from India was believed to be the best remedy for eye diseases, and that Egyptian agate was very effective against spider bites and scorpion bites.