David Englund Photography

 > Click on this picture to go to the larger viewer, then click the "O" for the original image. There is amazing banding in this rock that you've got to see close-up!!
 > .25oz beautiful Lake Superior "Eye" Agate; 2.7cm x 2cm x 1.5cm. 

I found this little rock in a gravel pit outside Moose Lake Minnesota. It was my first time out "rock-hunting" with a more experienced hunter. He was flabbergasted that I found such a jewel my first time out. I tumbled it with some other rocks and this was the result.
 > 2oz amazingly beautiful Lake Superior Agate; 4.5cm x 3.5cm x 2.3cm. 

Purchased from an old rock hunter and polisher (Marvin Green).
 > 1.5oz Lake Superior Agate; 4.2cm x 3cm x 2.7cm.

Al natural ("water polished," by virture of having spent hundreds of years in a creek bed with water running over it's surface).
 > 2.5oz Lake Superior Agate; 5cm x 4cm x 3cm.

Another water polished agate. Note the yellow regions in the lower-left. These are likely regions with higher iron content.
 > 2oz Lake Superior Agate; 5.2cm x 3.4cm x2.5cm.

A fine little water polished agate with multiple fractures.
 > 3.4oz Lake Superior "Tube" Agate; 5.5cm x 4.5cm x 2.5cm.

For reasons as yet unexplained agates can form "tubes" instead of banding. This rock is a bit translucent, and you can just make out some of the wriggly tubes. It would probably be even more impressive if it were polished. Ah! A winter project!!
 > 3.6 oz Lake Superior Agate (Saginite); 6cm x 5cm x 3cm. 

Also, note crystal impressions in lower-center.

(Saginite - An acicular variety of rutile occurring in groups of crystals crossing at 60 degrees and often enclosed in quartz or other minerals.)
 > Clearly showing the crystal impressions. Also, note the visible rutile fibers to the right.
Click on this picture to go to the larger viewer, then click the "O" for the original image. There is amazing banding in this rock that you've got to see close-up!!
 > Click on this picture to go to the larger viewer, then click the "O" for the original image. There is amazing banding in this rock that you've got to see close-up!!
Click on this picture to go to the larger viewer, then click the "O" for the original image. There is amazing banding in this rock that you've got to see close-up!!
Photo by: Dave Englund · see photo in gallery

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