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Stalactitic chalcedony geode (repaired) "The Waffle Cone"Locale: Atlas Mountains, Morocco Approx dimensions: 5. 5 x 3. 5 x 3" Approx weight: 458g **Repaired specimen These unusual geodes from Morocco are like small caves lined with stalactites, botryoidal forms, and swirling agate patterns. While commonly called red chalcedony, I find the color is more orange to red orange. Hematite causes this coloration, but later phases of growth (second generation) dont contain hematite inclusions. This creates a

and gives the quartz a dull green-ish gray hue

Broken or polished pieces can have lovely colors similar to low-quality petrified wood or jasper

UV reactivity Near the geode entrance

152g J 2

Approx weight: 405g

botryoidal forms

Colorless quartz also coats some stalactites creating a tutu of growth

Material: Dragon's blood jasper

The calcite has also formed stacks of small scalenohedral crystals

This specimen does exhibit these features

This is actually the specimen I used to demonstrate how to identify a repaired mineral

they are pretty convincing as coprolites