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Billion-year-old "Santa Claus"
www.chinanews.cn 2005-12-23 15:59:51
A one-billion-year-old rare stone named "Santa Claus" surprisingly
appeared in a fashionable stone gallery in Beijing on Dec. 22. It is a
gray agate that dates back one billion years and originates from the Gobi
in Inner Mongolia, belonging to the grotesque stone category. Experts
indicate that the stone is worth of tens of millions of yuan and call it
"China's No. 1 mimic agate both in shape and spirits".
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