Slaughter Mountain, Arizona, is known for some of the best fire agates in the world with intense color variations from bright reds and oranges to intense greens, purples and blues. The fire agate mineral deposit is located on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation and it's mining is only allowed to be carried out by members of the tribe.
SLR201 Fire Agate Rough 1.05 Pound Parcel, 20 Pieces, $100
This listing is for 1.05 pounds of Slaughter Mountain fire agate rough consisting of 20 pieces which range from 3/4 to 2-3/8 inches in size. All these stones either display external fire or show strong indicators of internal fire potential.
Product: SLR000-2 Price: $100.00
Product: SLP005 Origin: Slaughter Mountain Size: 39 x 32 x 22 mm Weight: 157 Carats Price: $79.95
This piece of windowed Slaughter Mountain fire agate rough for sale has been trimmed of excess host rock material, carefully contoured cut to just above the initial fire layer, roughly polished to help display the internal colors, and shows multiple layers of fiery red, orange, green and some blue/purple colors.
Deer Creek Fire Agate Rough For Sale
Deer Creek, Arizona, is well known for producing high quality fire agate gemstones that display bright and vivid red, orange, green, purple and blue color variations. These select pieces of Deer Creek fire agate rough sould all produce gem quality fire agate gemstones if properly cut.
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DCR012 - Pictured Wet
DCR012 - Pictured Dry
DCR012 - Bottom of stone
Deer Creek Arizona Fire Agate Rough DCR012 $69.95 - This colorful piece of all natural Deer Creek fire agate rough measures approx. 1-1/16 inches x 7/8-inch x 5/8 inch (27 x 22 x 16 mm). It weighs 10.7 grams (53.6 carats) and shows areas of fiery bronze, red, orange and green colors. This piece of fire agate rough could be carefully cut and polished into a nice high qaulity gemstone or left in its present state as a great all natural fire agate gemstone mineral display specimen. The bottom portion of this piece of rough consists of the original host rock and associated rhyolite matrix.
Pictures were taken indoors under lights and outdoors in sunlight while the stone was dry and then also wet to simulate a polish and best display the visible fire. This piece is a 100% all natural fire agate rough gemstone, as found at the mine, with only a toothbrush scrubbed cleaning performed on the piece after the mining extraction. ProductID: DCR012, Origin: Deer Creek, Size: 27 x 22 x 16 mm, Weight: 53.6 Carats, Price: $59.95
We have a Fire Agate Rough Buyers Guide available for you on our website which is a good place to start if you are new to purchasing fire agate rough. This buyers guide is to help assist you in shopping for high quality rough for your gemstone carving needs. It will attempt to answer some of the most common questions and assist you in what to look for in buying the best quality rough for lapidary cabbing, gemstone carving or for purchasing that unique piece for your mineral specimen display purposes.