Youngite Agate
AKA: Hartsville Uplift Agate
Information compiled by Loyd Doty











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Description of Physical Characteristics:

Color:  Youngsite is brecciated with a matrix of white to grayish white and re-healed colors of red, tan, and brown. 

Texture: 
Fine grain

Luster: Vitreous

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Loyd Doty notes:

Youngite Agate (Jasper) (WY), is an agatized rehealed breccia jasper found in the Guernsey Limestone near Hartville, Platte county Wyoming.  It may have a gray translucent druzy quartz around the outer part of the material.  The drusy quartz usually fluoresces green.  The jasper center varies in color from a light tan, to a peach, brown, reddish, salmon and variations of these colors. The material is very hard and was used by native people to make jewelry.  Youngite is a rare variety of quartz (Silicon Dioxide) and has a Mohs Scale hardness of 7.  Under long wavelength fluorescent light, it yields a blue network of fluorescence that follows the bands of drusy quartz.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution:
Distribution Comments:

Youngite is associated with the Guernsey Limestone Formation of southeastern Wyoming.  Primary sources are in the Hartsville Wyoming in central eastern Wyoming and into northwestern Nebraska.

 

 

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