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structure of the ancient Leopard Skin dZi bead
About Milk Agate.
After the shape of the bead is ready, the hole is sealed, the edges of the beads are covered with wax in the same way as the symbol. Therefore, they remain the original color. This is a common common technique for Milk Dzi beads. Striped Smoky Agate beads are additionally whitened with Caustic Soda. Milk Agate, like Leopard Skin dZi beads, never bleach the symbol additionally, leaving the original mineral and parts blackened from burnt sugar that highlight the symbol. As you can see, the burnt sugar in Smoky Agate gives off a warm brown hue, even after a long time. In Milk Agate it has a cooler gray tint.
Around the 12-15s of this century, a series of copies of Leopard Skin beads in yellow-brown, dark color was produced in China. This disappeared series quickly sold out to collectors.
Do not confuse, please, these are cast copies. The original Milk Agate has a cold tint.
Speaking strictly in scientific terms, mineralogy does not distinguish these varieties separately, gemmologists and minerologists call all DZi Milk Opalized Chalcedony. These varieties cannot be called Agate purely scientifically, since although they have the same chemical formula, they have a completely different microcrystalline structure of a nugget in nature. Let me remind you that Agate in gemology is considered to be "druze of quartz surrounded by layers of microcrystalline chalcedony.
Milk - Agate is a cross between Opal and Chalcedony. Milk Agate nuggets do not have voids and Quartz druze inside.
The peculiarity of the Milk Agate nuggets is that they do not grow underground, like other Chalcedony. They form on the surface of mountains only in the Himalayas, at an altitude of more than 5 km. For thousands of years, these nuggets have been a very valuable find of the Tibetans. Now, according to geologists, the reserves of this mineral on Earth are completely exhausted.
This mineral has many varieties.
If mineralogists have not yet singled out these minerals and varieties into separate varieties, jewelers, manufacturers of dZi beads and collectors have done it for themselves.
Distinguish Standard Milk Agate,
Opalized Agate (more blue and transparent than Milk Agate).
Snow Leopard Skin. (This bead)
Frosty Agate is also distinguished. (in this mineral, the internal structure resembles frozen patterns on glass). Unique crystal structure.
All these are very close species, the features of some species may intersect with others. Each nugget has its own individual qualities. Even beads made from the same nugget can differ from each other. This is influenced by the processing of the mineral during the production of the bead and the external conditions afterwards. This makes each Milk DZI unique and desirable.
The Tibetans call all these beads simply Milk dZi. However, these are more folk names than scientific ones.
structure of the ancient Leopard Skin dZi bead
About Milk Agate.
After the shape of the bead is ready, the hole is sealed, the edges of the beads are covered with wax in the same way as the symbol. Therefore, they remain the original color. This is a common common technique for Milk Dzi beads. Striped Smoky Agate beads are additionally whitened with Caustic Soda. Milk Agate, like Leopard Skin dZi beads, never bleach the symbol additionally, leaving the original mineral and parts blackened from burnt sugar that highlight the symbol. As you can see, the burnt sugar in Smoky Agate gives off a warm brown hue, even after a long time. In Milk Agate it has a cooler gray tint.
Around the 12-15s of this century, a series of copies of Leopard Skin beads in yellow-brown, dark color was produced in China. This disappeared series quickly sold out to collectors.
Do not confuse, please, these are cast copies. The original Milk Agate has a cold tint.
Speaking strictly in scientific terms, mineralogy does not distinguish these varieties separately, gemmologists and minerologists call all DZi Milk Opalized Chalcedony. These varieties cannot be called Agate purely scientifically, since although they have the same chemical formula, they have a completely different microcrystalline structure of a nugget in nature. Let me remind you that Agate in gemology is considered to be "druze of quartz surrounded by layers of microcrystalline chalcedony.
Milk - Agate is a cross between Opal and Chalcedony. Milk Agate nuggets do not have voids and Quartz druze inside.
The peculiarity of the Milk Agate nuggets is that they do not grow underground, like other Chalcedony. They form on the surface of mountains only in the Himalayas, at an altitude of more than 5 km. For thousands of years, these nuggets have been a very valuable find of the Tibetans. Now, according to geologists, the reserves of this mineral on Earth are completely exhausted.
This mineral has many varieties.
If mineralogists have not yet singled out these minerals and varieties into separate varieties, jewelers, manufacturers of dZi beads and collectors have done it for themselves.
Distinguish Standard Milk Agate,
Opalized Agate (more blue and transparent than Milk Agate).
Snow Leopard Skin. (This bead)
Frosty Agate is also distinguished. (in this mineral, the internal structure resembles frozen patterns on glass). Unique crystal structure.
All these are very close species, the features of some species may intersect with others. Each nugget has its own individual qualities. Even beads made from the same nugget can differ from each other. This is influenced by the processing of the mineral during the production of the bead and the external conditions afterwards. This makes each Milk DZI unique and desirable.
The Tibetans call all these beads simply Milk dZi. However, these are more folk names than scientific ones.