Agates of the Oregon Coast: Extra Large Blue-black Agate found on the Oregon Coast

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Extra Large Blue-black Agate found on the Oregon Coast

Oregon Coast Agate Club's President found these

Here we are showing two views of one beautiful fancy blue black fortification agate that Frank found recently. The top shows it dry and the lower shot shows it wet to better see the color. The fossil specimen lower right shows two fossils as they were found, cemented together.

We are in the final production of our third pocket guide therefore I have a lots of photos to catch up on for this blog. Frank was in recently with a very nice agatized clam, bloodstone, fancy agate, and a very nice specimen of teredo wood (still showing the grain of the wood). I will have to get those photos up too, as time permits.

AGATES OF THE OREGON COAST

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