Botswana Agate 6x8mm Triangle Cut Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch Stone Type_Rocky Butte Jasper “Butter” suggests qualities of smoothness

“Butter” suggests qualities of smoothness

The name originates from the town of Larvik

These inclusions range broadly in type and color and produce patterns that can look like gardens

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It sometimes features dark brown to black dendritic inclusions that branch like tiny tree limbs through the stone

Botswana Agate 6x8mm Triangle Cut Faceted Rice Bead - 15-16 Inch Stone Type_Rocky Butte Jasper “Butter” suggests qualities of smoothnessBotswana Agate displays highly defined parallel banding, usually in white on hues of brown, gray, pink, tan, apricot and purplish red. Botswana Agate was formed nearly 187 million years ago by lava flowing in waves from long faults in the earth. This lava rolled across the landscape, depositing layer upon layer of Quartz silicate to create the banding and patterns now prized in Botswana Agate.