Hand Wire-Wrapped Agate Pendant

Natural violet colour is unusual in agate, while purple dye treatment is common in chalcedony, so untreated colour needs verification rather than assumption.

True Laguna agate comes from a localised deposit area east of Estacion Ojo Laguna, and loose surface material disappeared decades ago, so fresh nodules require hard-rock mining.

Blue-grey is the most common Botswana agate, while pink-banded material is less common, and one deposit survey found pink nodules over 5 cm were uncommon.

The classic Ysterputs source operated until 2017, but blue lace agate is also documented in Kenya, so the name alone does not mean finite Namibian stock and provenance must be documented.

In studied natural violet agate, colour came from an amethyst-like iron centre activated by natural radiation, a mechanism encountered far less often than routine dye treatment in banded agate.

The classic Ysterputs source operated until 2017, but blue lace agate is also documented in Kenya, so the name alone does not mean finite Namibian stock and provenance must be documented.