Orca Agate Crystal Guide: meaning, origin & properties
Learn what Orca Agate is, where ours comes from, traditional associations across cultures, and how to identify a real specimen, in our complete Orca Agate Crystal Guide.
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just get these! honestly hahaha. i love every single one of these palm stones and these are visually stimulating and feel great in my hand. i could stare at these all day long tbh.
Juliette H · Verified buyer · February 2024
These are AA-grade Orca Agate palm stones from Sofia, Madagascar. Orca Agate is a black-and-white banded agate from Madagascar, named for its resemblance to orca markings. Each palm stone runs 1.50-3 inches at Mohs 6.5-7, sourced through a community partnership. A favorite grounding stone for pockets and meditation spaces.
Orca Agate is a chalcedony (quartz variety).
Our palm stones are sourced from Sofia, Madagascar. Worth knowing: a lot of the orca agate on the market is dyed. What we carry is natural and untreated.
It is one of the most diverse and widely collected mineral groups, with dozens of named varieties based on color, pattern, and origin.
Orca agate is traditionally a stone for quiet, steady calm, working through difficult feelings at your own pace, and settling into who you already are. It's traditionally linked to the throat and root chakras. If that resonates, keep one in your pocket on days you know you'll need to speak up. Let it become part of your own quiet routine.
These are traditional associations drawn from historical practice. This stone is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
Offered as a starting point for your own practice.
Orca Agate sits at 6.5-7 on the Mohs scale, about as hard as glass, so it handles daily use but will scratch against harder stones. Keep chemical cleaners away from it; they can etch the surface.
Natural orca agate from Sofia, Madagascar. Untreated.
You'll receive pieces from the same batch photographed, weighed to the amount you choose. Every piece passes our quality control and meets or exceeds what you see in the photos. Single specimens are listed separately and say so.
Each piece measures 1.5 to 3 inches on its longest side and weighs 50 to 100 medium.
Grades reflect visual quality within a batch. A is standard, with typical inclusions. AA shows stronger color, cleaner surfaces and tighter sizing. AAA is the top 10 to 15 percent of a batch. Every lot is inspected and graded by our team in Rockville, Maryland, not taken on the supplier’s word.
This batch is from Sofia, Madagascar. It came to us through a community partnership, one of the sourcing models we publish and stand behind.
Every lot is inspected and graded by our expert team before it is listed, not taken on the supplier's word. AA on this listing means stronger color, cleaner surfaces and tighter sizing than the batch average. Pieces that miss the mark never reach the shop.
How We GradeSourced through a regional cooperative or community-based workshop. Processing and economic benefit stay local, which means more of the value reaches the people doing the work. We say what we know and where our tracing stops.
Our Sourcing StandardsEverything we sell is natural in origin: never synthetic, never dyed, never coated. Where a stone has been heated, irradiated or stabilized, which is common in the trade for some species, we say so on the listing. If a piece is not as described, return it within 90 days of delivery.
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