Tree Agate Tumbled Stone Incense Holder This amethyst geode from Uruguay

This amethyst geode from Uruguay is part of the Q3-grade selection

The bowl is carved from a single piece of satin spar

the translucent stone carries a soft satin sheen across the disc

Dorjee carries the smell of the high Himalaya: dry

kept by the cooperative in Loreto

Tree Agate Tumbled Stone Incense Holder This amethyst geode from UruguayTree agate small tumble polished stones of milky white branched with green, the dendritic chalcedony whose green is mineral, not plant. A different growth on every stone. From India. The "tree" is manganese and iron oxide minerals that crept along fine cracks and branched as they grew, before the chalcedony sealed around them. It is the opaque white cousin of moss agate. Because the dendrites grew freely, no two stones repeat. Pliny wrote of tree