﻿{"id":103,"date":"2008-10-17T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/about\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T17:40:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About New Agates found during last years in  Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three Regions where we found some new agates in Argentina:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mesopotamia&#8221; Region , in &#8220;Entre Rios&#8221; Province: these agates were found alongside &#8220;Uruguay&#8221; River , Argentina and Uruguay Natural Border.Lots of agates here , low quality , although there are some very special and unexpected specimens we can name as oditties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuyo&#8221; Region , &#8220;Mendoza Province , near &#8220;San Rafael&#8221; City , where the &#8220;Condor&#8221; type agates are found.<\/p>\n<p>Patagonia Region , in the South of Argentina where we found at least five different sources ; these agates were first exhibited at M\u00fcnich Fair during the event\u00a0 &#8220;Agates From Around the World&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>In the USA , they were exhibited in a larger quantity during Tucson Mineral &amp; Fossil Show in year 2007. Until then , they were not known by American agate collectors. Fortunately , they were highly appreciated ; their parallax effect , bandings, colors \u00a0and their condition of &#8220;completely &#8221; new specimens started slowly but firmly enchanting those who were and were not agate collectors equally.<\/p>\n<p>We are very happy and thankful to have the opportunity to show them here ; we hope you enjoy our pictures !!<\/p>\n<p>Best Wishes from far away Argentina<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo &amp; Claudia Birnie<\/p>\n<p>Argentina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three Regions where we found some new agates in Argentina: &#8220;Mesopotamia&#8221; Region , in &#8220;Entre Rios&#8221; Province: these agates were found alongside &#8220;Uruguay&#8221; River , Argentina and Uruguay Natural Border.Lots of agates here , low quality , although there are some very special and unexpected specimens we can name as oditties. &#8220;Cuyo&#8221; Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/agatesfromargentina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}