African Nellite Rough Pietersite Relative Cutting Rough Chunk! Utah Wonderstone or it can be quartz

or it can be quartz (and sometimes even hollow with crystals) filled

One pound is often about one or two thundereggs

and is near where the Laguna Agate is mined on the Agua Nueva Ranch

This is high grade select Agua Nueva

it can work into some amazing cabochons

African Nellite Rough Pietersite Relative Cutting Rough Chunk! Utah Wonderstone or it can be quartzNellite is a material mined on a neighboring claim to the famous African Pietersite deposit. While this material can have pietersite like properties, it is not a piesterite, despite being marketed as it by many vendors. Nellite can have a beautiful chatoyancy, and often features a unique gold and blue coloration mix. It can cab beautifully, but expect to hit some fractures. It can sometimes also need to be treated. But boy, when you get a nice slab