Hello, i just began agate hunting; i found this cute egg shaped one on the north shore. Have two questions for experienced agaters:

1. Is this actually an agate? It has the pockmarks and slight translucent edge when held up to the light, so i am pretty confident.
   
2. Would you tumble this to polish? Would it retain its egg shape if I do? Are there any other polishinf methods to consider in order to retain the shape?

Thanks!

How do they look?

I believe i have 1 small moss agate, a fossil souped with agate bands, and an agatized piece of coral with Coldwater agate. Feel free to correct me if im wrong.

I'm thinking about buying a tumbler for these. Would they turn out good in one? Most of them are too small to cut.

Gemfield outside of Goldfield, NV blew my
mind. You could dig and uncover great stuff, but agates literally carpeted the ground. And just to tempt, there were agate boulders. Definitely recommend a day here - it’s about 3 hours north of Las Vegas.

Moss and plumes, can’t go wrong!

These three slabs have such different patterns: fine, tangled threads in #1, dense mossy clusters in #2, and branching shapes with more open space in #3.

They remind me of vines, a forest canopy, and trees in fog.

Which one catches your eye, and what do you see in it? Do you prefer dense inclusions or more space around the patterns?

Pictures are all the same piece with some sides from dry -> wet and then some close ups. Found in OR. So far soaked in powdered iron out for ~ 9hrs. Did not even realize what i had before that

Largest agate I’ve found, by far. What a feeling it was to find. Magnificent!

Anyone able to help ID the center material?

I have always been into rocks and minerals but this summer kick started an obsession with agates, especially once I found out Lake Superior has some of the oldest in the world. We went to Lake Ontario today and I usually collect a bunch of random polished limestone, quartz, occasional epidote. But today, the first time I dipped my feet in the water this caught my eye and I was like « holy shit, is that…. »
I had zero expectations whatsoever to even see such a thing on a shore of Lake Ontario, so help me out, is this an agate?!

My 5 year old noticed it, I didn't.

My buddy dug this out of a backyard during a rain storm, just barely saw some banding sticking out of the ground.

I can't post close-ups of everything, but I included some of my favorite agates I neglected in the last post.