Idaho gemstones are a highly sought after commodity. Shop owners use them in clothing and jewelry, as well as for crafting ...

Photo: Athens Park One of the most popular models and floorplans from Texas-based builder Park Athens, The Chalcedony, is a good example of that compromise. It's a park model tiny that doesn't ...

Agatized Coral hunting is becoming one of my absolute favorite things to do... beautiful colors, geodes, bubbly botryoidal agate... what else could you ask for?! Finding a fossil/gem/mineral all in ...

Large crystals found in geodes and other rocks are relatively rare. Pink ChalcedonyA pink chalcedony shows off its beauty. Chalcedonies include many types of cryptocrystalline quartz gems and ...

The geochemistry of agate and chalcedony in volcanic rocks represents an intricate record of silica precipitation and crystallisation processes occurring under variable thermal and chemical ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Chalcedony, from the Greek trade city of Kalzedon, is a variety of agate showing layers in grey to brown. Most specimens show a ...

Chalcedony is a mesmerizing stone, forged slowly over centuries on rocky, waterfront outcrops and morphing into this semiprecious gem. Waxy and translucent, it has an inner glow that suggests the ...

The site, known as Piney Grove, was first brought to archaeologists’ attention when hundreds of fragments of chalcedony were uncovered during a construction project. Chalcedony is a type of ...

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