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“... The Snow Agates are relatively new find, and the name refers to the appearance of "snow balls" in the agates filling in the cavities of concretions formed from the expansion of coral heads. They almost always contain white ("snows") agates covered with final yellow layers..”

Written by Jeffrey Anderson on his homepage dwarves earth-treasures.