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| Welcome to the Iranian Agate Page of Maziar Nazari. Iran has long had a reputation in ancient world as a source of good quality agates, which are derived principally from several extensive volcanic provinces, which extended vast districts of this country. Agate has been honored not only as a semiprecious mineral but also as a talisman among Iranian clan creeds since prehistorically ages. Also it seems that in spite of less known historical tale of geode in Iran, ancient Iranians knew geodes as a wonderful stone that they believed that in its talisman power and named it Devils Egg ! Unfortunately there are no information about Persian agate mines in the past. It seems that typical desert feature of most fields which is free from vegetation growth bring an easy condition for the first agate seekers who have found the loose nodules and fragments of agate on the stripped surface of the earth. Even today, the seekers of this semiprecious stone prefer to follow their ancients manner, and no mechanical exploitation for agate has been done in Iran , and most modern exploitation methods are restricted to digging shallow handmade small pits. The most celebrated Iranian agate localities locate in the central and eastern parts of Iran. Anyway today geode and agate have lost their past importance among common people, but there are a few amateur and professional collectors who search for new agate and geode occurrences and interested on collecting them because of their elegance and scientific importance and added to their interested day by day. The present site is the individual site which design only for introducing agate occurrences of Iran to those all interested, and will update time by time. You could find more common information about Iran, the ancient and mysterious country of Aryans, in following web sites: www.itto.org www.salamiran.org www.iranyellowpages.net www.iranaccess.com www.farsinet.com/travel2iran/ For more information about Iranian agates, thunder eggs, geodes, petrified wood and colorful jaspers, I would be grateful if you could get a contact with me, in following addresses. My special thanks to my dear brother Mahyar Nazari, whom this Web-page was possible with the unsparingly assistance of him. |
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| About Iranian Agates. Iranian Agates find in numerous varieties in different localities, e.g banded agate, sagenitic agate, horizontally banded agate, fortification agate, scenic agate, moss agate, plum agate, dendritic agate, vein agate, jasper agate, agates with amethyst filling centre and ... They find both in nodular and vein forms. Iranian Agates are not various in color they are mostly in pale to inky blue, white, gray, brown and colorless. Another colors like red and yellow are very rare. Most of Iranian agate (and jasper) occurences have formed in the Eocene (50 Ma) volcanic lava and tuffs and mostly find in loose form on the suface of the earth, after removing the host rock by weathering! Many of these agate fields were unknnown by last years, because most of them located in the central lifeless desert of the plateau of Iran,that is very dangerous and difficult to pass. No commerical excavation operation is doing on these agate fields and they are exploiing in very limited & in hand sorting form especialy on colorless ones, for dyeing red and cutting cabochons from them for using in Iranian handicrafts. There is few agate collectors in Iran, especially among geologists, which most of them are amateurs. |
Agate cameo of an ancient Achaemenid soldier |
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