Liangshan south red agate is volcanic eruption and fired at high temperature, belonging to volcanic south red. The original stone is round and smooth, and looks like a potato.

In terms of the thickness of the outer skin, there are two typical leather shells, one is an "iron shell" as smooth as iron, and the other is a rough "hemp" leather shell. Iron shell rough stone is usually thinner and more delicate. Hemp skin shells usually need to remove the thick skin to see the wet meat inside.

South Hongshi in Mongolia

Stone skin. The epidermis of south red agate in Mongolia is mostly red-skinned stone spots, without patina or complete stone skin. This layer of red-skinned stone spots gives people a very rough feeling, and some of them look like moldy.

Color. The color gamut of Mongolian South Red Agate is relatively narrow, and some colors are still very good, but most of the original stones are deep persimmon red, and some persimmon red is mixed with a little grass green agate, which is as easy to be confused as Warring States Red. Rose red is rare, and other colors have not been found yet.

Stony. The South Red Agate in Mongolia is stony, and the jade texture is not strong, which is far from the jewelry atmosphere of South Red Agate in Baoshan, so it is easy to distinguish.

Stone grain. There are many stone lines in the south red agate in Mongolia, which are similar to those in Gansu, but there are few stone lines in the south red agate in Liangshan and Baoshan.

Winding silk. Mongolian South Red Agate has a single winding color and distinct white winding layers. Compared with the winding colors of Liangshan South Red Agate, the winding colors are varied and changeable, and most of them are fuzzy and easy to identify.

Speed. South red agate in Mongolia is very common with high speed, but there are many cracks in the original stone, which is very similar to South red agate in Baoshan. These cracks are naturally formed and related to the formation environment.

Knowing the characteristics of Mongolian south red agate, it will be much easier to distinguish it from domestic south red agate in the future. From the above characteristics, it can be seen that the quality of South Red Agate in Mongolia is not very good, and it is very unlikely to alleviate the shortage of supply and demand in the domestic South Red Agate market by its original stone.