Description
In allusion to the plume-like shapes exhibited in the material. A variety of Chalcedony. A variety of chalcedony with contrasting colored, plume-like structures within the material.
Stinking Water Plume aka White Plume Agate is found near the Stinking Water creek, in eastern Oregon. This area, east of Burns, is quite famous for great rockhounding. It has white to yellowish plumes in a milky white nearly transparent agate.
Plume agate inclusions form when iron oxide, maganese oxide, or other oxides where present during the rock formation. The color of the plumes can vary depending on the material present when the rock forms, and in fact sometimes it can occur in multi-colors.
Lepidolite History
Originally called “lilalite” because of its lavender color, it was later named “lepidolite” from the Greek “lepidos”–which means “scale”–because of its scaly appearance caused by flakes of lithium. … Lepidolite is an important source of lithium, which is the lightest metal in the world.
