1. Red agate

Red agate, ancient red jade. Among the red agates, there are East Red Agate and West Red Agate. The former refers to the red agate formed by natural iron-containing agate after heating treatment, also known as "burning red agate", including bright red and orange red. An East Red Agate, named after it came from Japan in its early years. The latter refers to natural red agate, including dark red agate and bright red agate. Agate unearthed in ancient China belongs to West Red Agate, which comes from the West, hence the name.

2. Blue agate

Refers to blue or blue-and-white agate. This is a kind of agate with very beautiful color, and the large size is a good material for jade carving. People of high quality are dark blue. The second color is light. Blue and white flowers are also beautiful. When they have pinstripe structure, they belong to the variety of silk-wrapped agate. At present, most of the blue agate products produced in China market are artificially dyed, with uniform color and easy to distinguish from natural ones.

3.purple agate

Purple agate. Most of them are single purple, and the quality is as bright as amethyst. The second kind of person is not bright enough, commonly known as "boring". Purple agate is rare in nature, and it is also dyed.

4. Green agate

Green agate is not found in nature. At present, almost all green agates in the Chinese jewelry market are artificially colored, and some are just like jadeite, but experienced people can easily distinguish them from jadeite. Green agate is "thin" in color and green and crisp in texture; Emerald color "vigorous", texture emerald, tough.

5.black agate

Black agate. Black agate is rare in nature. At present, the black agate in China's jewelry market is artificially colored, and the color is thick black, which is easy to mix with other jet stones. Its hardness is greater than obsidian.

6.white agate

White tone or five-color agate. Among them, a kind of so-called white agate produced in northeast Liaoning actually belongs to white chalcedony, which is mostly used to make beads, and then artificially colored as blue, green and black. This kind of white agate is also a large piece of raw material for jade, and it is dyed well in the local area for use. However, nature also produces some white agates, which are generally unpopular because of their incorrect colors, especially those that are gray-white, but they can also be used to make some cheap and low-grade tourism products or souvenirs.

7. weed agate, also known as moss agate

8. water bile agate, as the name implies, agate contains water. This kind of agate is very rare and is a precious variety of agate.

9. Other colors of agate

Agate of other colors can be named according to different colors.