Comments on: Can You Help Identify This Stone?

By: Careasa

Careasa — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 01:41:07 +0000

Crab fire agate is my guess. I have one too I am trying to identify.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:03:16 +0000

I have beads exactly like this pendant that were sold as fire agate. My experience is that different vendors will often call the same stone something different. In addition, it may have a different name depending on where it was mined. My view is, if you like it don’t worry about exactly what it is. It is still beautiful.

By: Kristin Moore

Kristin Moore — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:00:35 +0000

Thank you everyone!!!

By: june andrew

june andrew — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:50:27 +0000

I have a Madagaskin Agate that is similar

By: Autumn

Autumn — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 03:04:22 +0000

I have to agree with the others–a form of heat-cracked and (possibly) dyed agate. A popular kids “experiment” is heating marbles in an oven, and dropping them in cold water. It creates the “crackle” effect you see here. Same principles. There are some stones which have a natural pattern such as this…but I don’t think this is a natural occurrence.

By: LESLIE hIRSCHBERG

LESLIE hIRSCHBERG — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:13:00 +0000

fire agate comes in other colors too

By: Christa

Christa — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:04:51 +0000

To me it looks like a Fire agate?

By: nirado

nirado — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:58:46 +0000

Hi everybody! This is a stone I fell in love with a number of years back. Seems like everything I did was in this stone because I was obsessed with it. LOL Some of the stones are incredible! But it is not fire agate. There was an article written in either Art Jewelry or Lapidary Arts about it several years back. Sorry I don’t have it at my fingertips to reference it. The article referred to it as crackled agate. It is agate that is heat treated until it crackles, just like the name says. I think this is also a good explanation of the stone: wire-sculpture.com/jewelry-making-blog/tag/crackle-fire-agate/ to help see the difference between the two. Good luck and I hope you enjoy that stone as much as I did – and still do!

By: Patience Pontious

Patience Pontious — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:27:49 +0000

It is definitely an agate, that has been heat treated. It has many names, as you can see above. You can always go to eBay and do a search on any of these names and find stones like this one, only not a beautiful mostly. You can also go to stone sales and look for natural agates and see what comes up. I have been buying stones and doing online research for a few years now, and when I can not figure it out, I check out these types of sites. You can also just do a web based search to find out more about your stone. You will learn a lot about stones and gems this way, and possibially get confused a bit also. Good luck

By: Nancy Bailey

Nancy Bailey — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:36:33 +0000

Yes, it is Crab Fire Agate, also called Mexican Fire Agate which is a type of Spiderweb Carnelian that has been heat treated, hence the “crazing” affect on the stone. They are sometimes made out of glass to look like stone.

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:41:00 +0000

I bought 6mm faceted beads like this awhile ago. They were called fire agate. It appears that like all stones, lots of people have different names for them.

By: HELEN

HELEN — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:30:13 +0000

I bought a strand of these when I was in CA. The seller said it was an agate. They are so nice, albeit heavy.

By: Jeanne Keith

Jeanne Keith — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:28:29 +0000

I have several of this stone and the vendor I purchased it from says it is “Crab Agate” It has the look of a cooked crab when they turn red from cooking the shell.

By: Stephanie Price

Stephanie Price — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:08:37 +0000

I believe it’s also named crab fire agate, snakeskin agate, and spiderweb carnelian. The crackled look comes from heat treating the stone.

By: Jackie Watson

Jackie Watson — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:58:58 +0000

I think it’s a fire agate, and sometimes called ‘crab fire agate’ because it looks like boiled crabs. 🙂 One of my favorite stones!

By: drc536

drc536 — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 10:43:17 +0000

I thought it was fire agate, but I’m not sure. I have one and I wish I had bought others.

By: Patience Pontious

Patience Pontious — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 23:21:19 +0000

As the others have said, it is a Dragons Vein Agate and very pretty too. Enjoy.

By: Rena Klingenberg

Rena Klingenberg — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:39:10 +0000

It looks wonderfully like a dragon eye! 🙂 But it also reminds me of polished dinosaur fossils I’ve seen.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:00:36 +0000

I think I’ve seen something similar called something like Dragonskin. It almost looks to me like some form of agate, possibly dyed and/or heat treated for the crackle effect.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:36:44 +0000

I believe this is a beautiful specimen of dragon vein agate.