Botswana agate
Lapidary material SiO2
About it
Finely banded agate in soft pinks, greys, and peach, often with tiny eye patterns. Comes from basalts around Bobonong in eastern Botswana.
- Type
- Lapidary material
- Group
- Agate (chalcedony)
- Formula
- SiO2
- Hardness (Mohs)
- 6.5–7
- Specific gravity
- 2.57–2.64
- Streak
- white
- Lustre
- waxy, vitreous (glassy)
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Colours
- pink, peach, grey, white, brown
- Transparency
- translucent, opaque
- Cleavage and fracture
- none; conchoidal fracture
Typical values: real specimens vary. For more, see mindat.org.