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<p>[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4254455, member: 18716"]As [USER=29]@Ownedbybear[/USER] says, looks like it may be agate. You can check by shining a light through, if it's translucent it's most likely agate, if it is opaque it's likely red jasper. Both are different forms of quartz, here's an explanation of the differences. A lot of it is simply linguistics to describe the visible forms built up over the centuries.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.fossilera.com/pages/agate-jasper-chalcedony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fossilera.com/pages/agate-jasper-chalcedony" rel="nofollow">https://www.fossilera.com/pages/agate-jasper-chalcedony</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ce BCA, post: 4254455, member: 18716"]As [USER=29]@Ownedbybear[/USER] says, looks like it may be agate. You can check by shining a light through, if it's translucent it's most likely agate, if it is opaque it's likely red jasper. Both are different forms of quartz, here's an explanation of the differences. A lot of it is simply linguistics to describe the visible forms built up over the centuries. [URL]https://www.fossilera.com/pages/agate-jasper-chalcedony[/URL][/QUOTE]
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