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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Easter egg Jan 6^th, 2021 at 2:39pm	Print Post
	Not so much for identifying, but for showing off. I thought I had posted pics of this guy before, but can't find any, so.. This is the natural, nature made shape I found this layered agate in. Looks like an Easter egg. I've been slowly working on trying to smooth it by hand (hence the slowly) & found something special in the special egg. Near the top on the back side (unfortunately in the milky upper layer) is a pretty dendritic fern/fan. It angles inward, making it even harder to see, but this is what I've gotten so far. 1 5/8" long by 1 1/8" wide (the rock, not the dendrite). The dendrite fern/fan is just shy of 1/4" in width. Pic for the dendrite is at 50x. The pitting on the back extends inwards at different angles from what I can tell. 3rd pic is backlit.

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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #1 - Jan 6^th, 2021 at 10:16pm	Print Post
	Since the first 3 pics were taken, I've managed to flatten the back a bit where the pitting is. These 3 pics are 50x views of some of that area. Looks really nice under magnification & not what I expected.

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Scott LaBorde RHL Administrator Offline "Rock it" science! Posts: 2971 Location: Wake Forest, NC Joined: Sep 28^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #2 - Jan 7^th, 2021 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	Wow, beautiful find, and great pictures!

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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #3 - Jan 7^th, 2021 at 12:46pm	Print Post
	Scott LaBorde wrote on Jan 7^th, 2021 at 12:38pm: Wow, beautiful find, and great pictures! Thanks Scott. Maybe someday I'll manage to get it smooth & shiny.. or at least smoother & shinier.


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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #4 - Jan 7^th, 2021 at 8:49pm	Print Post
	Nice egg! And you sure have given us the tour of it. Thank you. 'Roun'hea we call that black and white banded quartz, 'Coon Tail. More light comes thru on the back-lit pic than I would've thought. Some guesses to start would be goethite for the dendrite and muscovite for golden-brown flakes in the last group of pics.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #5 - Jan 8^th, 2021 at 1:47pm	Print Post
	JoeM wrote on Jan 7^th, 2021 at 8:49pm: 'Roun'hea we call that black and white banded quartz, 'Coon Tail. Dat's a fancy, highfalutin name for such a simple banded agate. Dun look like no coon's tail I ever saw though. Poor coon wuda been called Stubby having a tail that short. As for the light passing through, the rock was about 1" thick before I started trying to flatten it some. I doubt I'll be able to get the pitting smoothed away on the front & sides, let alone the back. I'm just hoping to get it smoother so the layering & dendrite show better. In hand the middle band looks almost an extremely pale blue, but light shows it white. But no matter what, I like it.


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #6 - Jan 13^th, 2021 at 2:22pm	Print Post
	Got a slightly better pic of the dendrite "fern". Shut off the LEDs on the Dino-lite & used a small LED flashlight. Not so much a clearer pic, but shows more of the depth. And it really does look like a fern growing into the agate.

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JoeM God Member Offline I Love YaBB 2.5 AE! Posts: 4204 Location: Wake County, NC Joined: Sep 30^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #7 - Jan 13^th, 2021 at 7:38pm	Print Post
	Awesome picture, dave! I like the 'empty'(?) circle at the base of the 'fern'. What is up with that?


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daves64 Senior Member Offline Rockaholic Posts: 456 Location: Ellensburg WA Joined: Jun 27^th, 2018 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #8 - Jan 13^th, 2021 at 8:21pm	Print Post
	That's the attachment to the main stalk of course. Actually, I have no idea, the surface is solid there. No hole at all.


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CBDuke Junior Member Offline RockHoundLounger Posts: 96 Location: Baltimore Maryland Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2020 Gender:	Re: Easter egg Reply #9 - Jan 18^th, 2021 at 1:47pm	Print Post
	Could be your looking at pyrolusite, but it also looks like the material that makes up the moss in moss agates. The piece you magnified looks like the fine detail on jaspers I've collected. One local here in Baltimore produces fine dendrites possibly hematite on a tan jasper


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