STONE RING AGATE MOST EXPENSIVE AND MOST POPULAR IN INDONESIA

Agate stone ring best and most popular or well-known, both in Indonesia and abroad 2015 - Ring is a well-known jewelry and subject to a lot of people for thousands of years for both women and men. The ring is placed on the fingers and and circular on the ring finger or middle finger. Lately agate stone ring / gems have become prey many people

By tradition usually rings made from precious metals, silver or mixtures of other materials such as copper, bronze, brass chrome and others. To beautify the look of a ring fitted with carved and decorated with gems such as diamonds, diamond or agate.

If during this, gemstone rings are widely used among people who are already adults but later the ring is already widely used among young people and teenagers even today rings with agate has become a trend and lifestyle, so that the price of the more expensive stone ring because more and more enthusiasts from various circles. 

The following types of agate stone ring popular and most expensive in Indonesia:

Bacan stone

Safir stone

Emerald stone

Ruby stone

Topaz

Panca Warna Garut

Agate Edong is a type of agate original arrowroot increasingly popular among collectors, not only domestically but also collectors from abroad, even the type of battery Edong stone already penetrate foreign markets because supposedly rock quality on par with precious stones that had been well known in world market gemstone like sapphire, emerald, ruby ​​and others.

Agate Edong first discovered around 1994 by Abah Edong (80 years) during which not many people like stone but older people too is still very little compared to the past few years, almost all people like agate.

Mbah Edong, as the inventor of agate Edong have never thought that the stone discovery 10 years ago, will be a very precious stone and be hunted many people at exorbitant prices. Even stone-sized eyes Edong five color rings can be worth millions of dollars, but at the time this type of stone appreciated only 4 million per quintal.

Lately Edong stone is often the target of the hobbyist agate, thus making it increasingly rare stones. If the stone can be found in the market certainly very expensive. Even to get the raw material only (boulder) has been very difficult.

According to the story that evolved to be able to find material agate Edong was not easy, the penammbang have to down hills and dense forests, there are even some of those who perform special rituals and offerings to provide excavation in place so that the business can run smoothly and get the results as you wish.

Batu Akik Panca Warna (Panca Warna Stone)

Agate is probably the most common gemstone on the planet – but there are agates and then there are AGATES. Really top qualitymulticolor agate can sell for 1000’s of dollars.

The Pancawarna gemstone is in fact from the agate family, but because of it’s “aggregate” nature (many minerals mixed into one stone) it can be wildly multicolored.

Pancawarna means “five colors” or “multicolored” (in Sanskrit) and is a term that has been used for decades perhaps centuries to refer to the multicolored agates and jaspers of Indonesia, more particularly for stones from Java.

In fact the Agate stone Pancawarna often have a lot of black and sometimes white so the contrast in colors is very strong. The strong contrast is one of it’s special features. So Pancawarna Agate gemstone is a gemstone with five colour combination.

The material of Pancawarna gemstone  is very hard (6.5 to 7.0 on the Mohs scale – nearly as hard as jade) and takes a good polish, but some of Pancawarna gemstone material is very cracky and unstable, so a lot of material is lost in the cutting and polishing process.

Pancawarna Agate gemstone oftenly have wonderful abstract color patterns resembling abstract paintings, and very rarely what seems to be a picture – flowers, leaves, landscapes and even animals or human forms. These “picture agates” can be very expensive and are highly sought after. In fact true “picture agates” are a class in themselves and we will discuss those unique gems in the next issue.

The really top quality Pancawarna gemstone do look like paintings, in fact, but abstract paintings and really beautiful ones. Irwan Williams-Holmes, the American jewelry designer working in Indonesia for over 40 years even calls his exhibitions of Indonesian gems (and his jewelry) “Paintings by Angels”.