Lake Superior Moss Agate Pendant

This is a Lake Superior Moss Agate Pendant Stone that I recently made for sale. I made this pendant stone from a good sized lake superior moss agate that I self collected while rockhounding in southern Minnesota.

You can see many of the iron colors red, yellow, orange, pink and white colors in this particular stone, it is also highly translucent. The pendant has been shaped, polished and drilled making it ready for any craft project you wish to put it towards.

Lake Superior Agates formed around the mid continent rift. As the continental plate pulled apart allowing lava to flow through in what is now the lake superior area. Basalt is one of the igneous rocks left behind from cooling magma. as the magma cooled gas bubbles remained trapped in the rock leaving behind voids and pockets in the stone. Over time silica rich water filled the voids depositing silica creating the agates we see today. The agates have a wide variety of patterns most common being banded or moss. Banded agates are the result of silica being deposited in layers one on top of the other. Moss patterns are created from minerals like iron in the silica rich solution reacting with oxygen in the air and oxidizing. This creates the mossy pattern you see in the stone here.

The dimensions are 1.7"x 1.37"x .2"
The weight is 70 carats or 14 grams.