Red Botswana Agate 10mm Round - 15-16 Inch Agate8mm African Jade is a complex

African Jade is a complex Calcium Aluminum Silicate and is a Nephrite Jade

manganese and other metallic oxides captured during the forming of the rock

Red Garnet and Crystal Quartz

Rhyolite was named "streaming rock" because of its beautiful bands

It also serves as the Mohs hardness scale index mineral for a hardness of 8

Red Botswana Agate 10mm Round - 15-16 Inch Agate8mm African Jade is a complexRed Botswana 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.