[Rockhounds] Intense red agate

[Rock Currier]

I wonder if the three pictures of the intense red "agate" might be a 
selected piece of "poppy jasper" from Morgan Hill up by San Jose, 
California. Some of that material gets pretty red. It looks very much like 
the pictured "agate" is wet and if that is so, it will look a lot redder 
than it would when it is dry. Add to that some red bias from the imaging 
technique and perhaps a more than natural red bias on the image reader on 
some computers and you might get something that will hurt your eyes. At any 
rate I don't think there is a source in the Western United states for 
quantities of agate as red at that.
Rock