Welcome to our new Needles Blue Agate Page!

The story goes that a man I met named Ed who had heard of the blue agate through the members of the Needles Gem and Mineral Society Club, who had a mining claim on this deposit.  Ed sent samples of the material to Arizona State University in the '60s to be analyzed. The result came back with a surprising 21 minerals to make this gemstone! Only 1 other deposit of the like mineral make-up has been known to be found; and that is in Saudi Arabia. Not much has been found for several years now; and consequently, the product now sells by the gram, or carat. These specimens have been sawn out of the matrix for the most part. The matrix is "harder-than-heck" rhyolite. Click on the photos for expanded view, pricing and secure order page. Thank you for taking the time to view this product. They are specimen slabs and photographed wet, and in the sun, to show beauty and detail...not finished stones,   with the exception of the last 4 which have been polished..