Paint Rock Agate
AKA: Greasy Cove Agate












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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Paint Rock Agate has colors of yellow, orange, red black, gray, and blue with banding or quartz formation at the center of the nodule occasionally occurring. 

Texture:
 Fine grain

Luster: Vitreous

Translucency: Semi translucent

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Distribution:
Distribution Comments:
Paint Rock Agate occurs in Paint Rock Valley on the Cumberland Plateau near the Alabama and Tennessee Boarder and around Greasy Cove, Alabama.
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