What is salt source agate? Where is the origin of Yanyuan agate?

What is salt source agate? Where is the origin of Yanyuan agate? Yanyuan agate is mainly produced in Sichuan. It is a very beautiful stone, especially the color is very attractive, which is very suitable for girls to wear. Let's take a look at this agate.

What is salt source agate?

Yanyuan agate is named after its origin (Yanyuan County, Liangshan, Sichuan). Close to the origin of Nanhong, it is as moist as Nanhong and rich in color, so some people call it "Colorful Nanhong". Salt agate usually has pink, purple, green, white, blue, yellow, brown and other colors.

Yanyuan agate has strong characteristics in texture, jade quality, oily feeling and fineness. The color paste is evenly distributed and the colors naturally complement each other. Yanyuan agate is a kind of agate which is very suitable for carving. The texture is hard and delicate, the carving is not easy to collapse, the toughness is good, the gel feeling is strong, and the oil is natural. Coupled with rich colors, it is very suitable for carving works of different shapes and colors.

Where is the origin of Yanyuan agate?

Yanyuan agate is mainly produced in Yanyuan County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. In the southwest of meigu county, these places are very close. Meigu county, Leibo County and Yanyuan County are all very close. Enough to see on the map.

How to choose salt source agate

1. The skinned salt agate is similar to the rough south red agate. It's hard to say without cutting. Therefore, enthusiasts should choose open materials.

2. When buying the finished product, the brighter the color, the richer the contrast, the purer and warmer the jade, the more ingenious the combination of carving and jade materials, and the higher the collection value.

The difference between salt source agate and south red agate

Yanyuan agate is considered as the brother variety of Nanhong. In the process of formation, Yanyuan agate is very similar to Nanhong agate, and so is it in the original stone. South red agate has egg-shaped original stone (South red egg), while the original stone of Yanyuan agate is mainly egg-shaped and not heavy. This is a typical salt source agate, the original stone of salt source agate. Our treatment method is to give it a knife and divide it into two parts, so that we can see the color and impurities in the salt source agate clearly. So splitting in two is the most commonly used method.