Grape Agate Crystal Cluster Botryoidal Geode Specimen Flashlight The faceted green stone tapers

The faceted green stone tapers to a clean point

Natural variations in color and pattern are normal and expected

The purple color ranges from pale lavender to deep violet depending on the concentration of iron and the degree of natural irradiation

The result is a stone with a distinctive mottled appearance

Grape Agate Crystal Cluster Botryoidal Geode Specimen Flashlight The faceted green stone tapersGrape Agate is one of those minerals that genuinely stops people. The clusters of tiny, perfectly rounded purple spheres look almost too perfect to be natural, like something between a gemstone and a work of sculpture. And yet every one of them formed slowly in volcanic rock in West Sulawesi, Indonesia, the botryoidal chalcedony growing sphere by sphere over millions of years until it produced something that looks exactly like a cluster of deep purple