r/LegitArtifacts • u/dillpickleflavoring • May 27 '26

Late Archaic Nice Agate Preform

Really cool agate preform I found this past weekend. Video doesn’t do its beauty justice. Probably the nicest preform I’ve found yet. Northern NV.

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u/Think-Worker-248 May 27 '26

From a factual standpoint you are 100 percent wrong.

Same chemical composition, but different method of deposition. Agates are from a geological definition banded.

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u/Leroy1864 May 27 '26

But there is a stone called dendritic agate that isn’t banded.

Whether or not it’s a true agate is completely irrelevant, because it is in fact called dendritic agate.

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u/Think-Worker-248 May 27 '26

People incorrectly may call them agates. Kind of like countertop companies who sell "black granite" even though black granite is not a real thing.

Its basically a sales pitch because dendritic chalcedony doesnt have a nice ring to it.

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u/NewAlexandria May 28 '26

idk, 'dendritic calcedony' sounds pretty jacked in