Kentucky Agate

World-class agate from Kentucky's hills and blue grass country!

About Kentucky Agate

It's easy to get spoiled on Kentucky agate. As Kentucky's state rock, the agate comes in about every variety including crazy-lace, banded, cloud, figure-8, and moss-agate just to name a few. About every color and shade can be found in Kentucky's agate. Some say that agate brings happiness and a sense of tranquility.

The state of Kentucky is situated on a limestone bed with rivers, large creeks and streams eroding through to expose agate treasures buried inside. The creek and river stream-beds also provided an abundant-source of colorful-flint that Native American Indians used to knap their hunting-points. Two-to-three-hundred feet of erosion is typical along much of the Kentucky River and Red River basins in Central Kentucky. As much as seven hundred feet of erosion can be seen in some places.

Kentucky River limestone palisades produced by erosion

Estill County, Kentucky is the native-source of some of the world's finest agate and most of it never leaves the state as it is readily collected, exchanged, crafted and stored by the locals. Middle Fork Creek in Estill County is the world's only location where imperial red agate is banded with black. It's a stunning presentation that often combines with bright yellow, white and grey in various banded patterns.