Color:  Scots Bay Agate ranges from most commonly a light brown to tan or a red to reddish purple with maroon streaking, milky white also occurs.  Commonly variegated.

Texture: Fine grain

Luster: Waxy to vitreous

Translucency:  Opaque to a patchy very slight translucent.

Silica Fabrics / Fossils:

Patina:

Heat Treatment: 

Knapping: Conchoidal fracture
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution Comments:

Scots Bay Agate is associated with the Scots Bay Formation of the Fundy Group of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  Primary exposures occur on the north shore of the Minas Basin between Clark Head and Gerrish Mountain near Economy, Cumberland County, New Brunswick.