tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953084520147231706.post4311061442769452685..comments2020-07-27T02:08:25.718-07:00Comments on ikki's gemstone beady box: Dragons Vein AgateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953084520147231706.post-55388295873218634852013-03-22T06:56:13.691-07:002013-03-22T06:56:13.691-07:00Those beads are same as "Crabb fire agate&quo...Those beads are same as "Crabb fire agate", just dyed different colors. Some are natural agates that are heat quenched bleached and dyed, some get heated too much and become essentially quartz glass now, while others are totally fake and are man-made silica glass from the beginning. <br /><br />The others could be any number of dyed jaspers! Or any number of renamed natural jaspers that are typically heavily stabilized because they are unstable completely, without massive epoxy or resins impregnation they'd just fall apart and crumble and typically natural tone dyes are mixed in with the epoxy and redone, or any number of odd composite stones I've been seeing lately! <br /><br />They are bits and pieces of natural all put back together using pressure and resins or epoxies. Sometimes with or without dying first. <br /><br />Some are powdered rocks mixed with epoxies or resins and dyes and other things and pressed under pressure into blocks. <br /><br />Some of completely artificially created pieces that are some sort of resins that are dyed, then patterns drawn into them with other dyes or materials, etc. <br /><br />The ingenious fakes they're producing lately could easily fool even most Gemologists that aren't up to par on agates and jaspers and those sorts of gemstone materials nor current treatments, synthetics, simulant, and composite materials out there on the market! <br />Chris & Tae Calentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08648689731694198767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953084520147231706.post-50198234913746184312013-01-29T01:28:38.228-08:002013-01-29T01:28:38.228-08:00I hadn't heard of them either, but I love them...I hadn't heard of them either, but I love them, love the bracelt too :o)<br />Jackie xxJackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08254162980779192765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953084520147231706.post-78021145060963526242013-01-28T16:18:24.828-08:002013-01-28T16:18:24.828-08:00I had not heard of Dragons Vein Agate gemstones be...I had not heard of Dragons Vein Agate gemstones before. They're quite beautiful, and I love those charms you add. They really make the bracelet special.Cheryl Whttp://www.paperpanacea.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com