One of my most popular and requested wired pendant is the Oco Agate Slice. These are also one of my many favorite pendants (yes I have many, but this one is in the top) to work. Their unique colors is a mesmerizing explosion of deep dark rich earthy brown, black, navy, olive, and rust or the slightly more delicate shades of pink, purple, cream, white, and gray. What sets them apart from any other agate is the crystalline centers, some even have very tiny crystal cylinders within the crystalline.
Agate geode halves which are found in the Ocos region of Brazil are small agate nodules with a crystalline interior. Agate is named after a river in Sicily called Achates, where it was found in the Fourth Century, B.C. In the center of the rock, where there is a cavity, crystals often form, thus the name geode.
The formation in which the geodes are found is 50 million years old and located in the country of Brazil. Farmers have gathered the oco’s for many years. After the crops have been harvested and the farmers are unable to work, the fields are tilled under allowing the oco’s to appear. They are then gathered and sold for cutting into the geode half.
These newest designs feature some dazzling color mixtures…from black to grey to pink to purple and everything in-between.
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