What is the best color of agate

What are the colors of agate Agate best in the eyes of most people, agate color is not red?

In fact, agate has many other colors besides red.

So how many colors of agate are there?

What is the best color of agate?

The following introduces the color of agate and the characteristics of agate color, we can understand!

There are several colors of agate 

1.Red agate and red agate of the east and west agate.

Eastern red agate refers to red agate formed after heating treatment of natural iron agate, also known as “burnt red agate”, which has bright red and orange red.

Eastern red agate early from Japan, hence the name.

It refers to the natural red agate, some of which are dark red, some are bright red, and most of the agates unearthed in ancient China belong to western red agate, and come from the West, so it is named.

2.Blue agate is a blue or blue-white agate.

This agate color is very beautiful, large block is a good material for jade carving.

Quality blue agate color is relatively dark blue.

The second color is relatively light.

Blue and white are also very beautiful, when there is a fine ribbon structure, it belongs to the variety of sardonyx.

At present, most of the blue agate products produced in the Chinese market are made of artificial dyeing, and their color is thick and easy to distinguish from the natural ones.

3.A black agate.

Nature is relatively rare, at present the black agate on the Chinese jewelry market is artificially colored and become, its color is thick black, easy to mix with other black jade.

Harder than obsidian.

4.Purple agate purple agate.

It is mostly a single purple color, and the best color is as bright as amethyst.

The color is light, or not bright enough, commonly known as “stuffy”.

Jacinate is rare in nature, but also dyed.

5.Green agate

Green agate, nature does not see green agate, at present China’s jewelry market of green agate is almost artificial coloring, its color is dark green, some color like jade, but experienced people are very easy to distinguish from jade.

Green agate color “thin”, texture no green, crisp;

Jade color “thick” texture is green, toughness.

6.White agate with white tone or five color agate.

Most of them are used to make beads, and then manually colored, can be colored into blue, green, black and other colors.

This white agate is used in bulk as raw material for jade articles, and is dyed locally into a fancy color for use.

Nature also produces some white agate, because the color is not straight, generally not popular.

1, various levels of agate, red, blue, purple, pink for the best, and the requirements of transparency, no impurities, no sand, no crack;

Among THEM, THE BLOCK WEIGHS 4.5 KG FOR the special class, 1.5 KG for the first class, 0.5-1.5 kg for the second class.

2. The color of agate is divided into natural color and artificial dyeing.

The natural colors are mainly red, amber and white.

Among them, red is the best.

The agATE JEWELRY OF BLUE, PURPLE THAT SELLS ON MARKET IS NOT INSTINCTIVE QUALITY, IT IS DYED AFTER PROCESSING, CAN APPEAR FADE AFTER USING A FEW YEARS.

Dyed agate is mostly natural variegated color, not easy to directly processed into jewelry.

The above introduced agate color has several and what color agate best, you can understand!