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A: Traces left on wall of hole being ground by fine-grained, free undissolved sand.
B: Banded texture in white agate ore.
C: Biological weathering

A: Black oozed
B: Rainbow effect
C: Yellow oozed
D: Oozed cracks

A: Macro of geode and yellow oozed

Pervious to light

A: Oozed cracks
B: Biological weathering
C: Yellow oozed
D: Soil erosion marks

Oozed cracks and oozed by black elements

A: Oozed cracks
B: Biological weathering
C: Faded ground colour and pattern
D: Fade white pattern

White stripes slightly sunken in other parts of the bead body

A: Eroded colour fading
B: Crystal associated
C: Oozed cracks
D: Soil erosion

Rainbow effect

Unearthed etched carneol and DZi Bead

Unearthed DZi Bead

A: Banded texture in white agate ore.
B: Eroded colour fading
C: Slightly yellow oozed
D: Soil erosion

Oozed crack and black oozed visible under N-180M microscope

A: Lustrous white agate revealed after erosion and colour fading
D: Soil erosion
C: Oozed by black elements
D: Oozed cracks and oozed by black elements

Characteristics of DZi Bead under pervious light

A: Rainbow effect on black bead
B: Yellow oozed

A: Soil erosion marks
B: Slightly yellow oozed
C: Fading of white pattern and dark ground colour
D: Soil erosion
E: Biological weathering
F: Oozed cracks
D: Fading of white pattern
H: White pattern slightly sunken in bead

A: Oozed cracks
B: Tangerine peel effect
C: Rainbow effect
D: Eroded colour fading
E: Black oozed