Brecciated Agate

A blue-gray slab cut to reveal many amalgamated chips and pieces of other blue, gray, and white rocks inside, looking like an irregular mosaic.

From the collection of Dennis Tryon. http://www.mindat.org/photo-374385.html

Brecciated agate is a naturally amalgamated matrix of broken agate fragments. In other words, it’s broken agates stuck together to make one big agate.  Sometimes it’s called mosaic agate or ruin agate.

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