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The pueblo of Zuni Native American Indians is located in western New Mexico (south of Gallup) near the Arizona border

Within the "Gemstone community" Zircon is not a commonly used stone

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Tumbled Lake Superior Agate f6921a22494dd361f6c39a7d4fde2a79 The pueblo of Zuni NativeLake Superior Agates are unique from other agates due to their strong red color. This comes from the oxidized iron introduced to them during their formation. Beginning as small bubbles of volcanic gasses in lava that hardened, ground water circulated silica along with the iron, which over time crystallized to form agate. A massive glacier that moved across what is now Minnesota some 10 15,000 years ago, uprooting much of the agate formations and