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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gus Tuason, post: 653534, member: 10012&quot;]Sorry, but I don&#039;t agree. In the NW corner of the US we call it &quot;beach agate&quot;. You may call it pebble agate. I agree that the carngorm, amethyst, citrene, and clear quartz (all quartz but just different colors) are mined. Agate may be mined, but I seem to recall in my readings that much of the early Scottish jewelry was made from stones found on the beaches. I can refer you to an article &quot;Hunting Agates in Scotland&quot; by Sandy Ramsay printed on pages 127-129 of the &quot;Rocks &amp; Minerals&quot; magazine of Vol. 29, 1954, Issue 3-4. He describes picking up agates along a Scottish shore. Sounds Logical to me that these might be what you call pebble agate and what we call beach agate? It also seems logical to me to utilize these agates, which were much easier to obtain, in jewelry than to resort to hardrock mining to obtain them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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