California rock collector Mike Bowers posted a video of the mineral on his Facebook page on January 16.
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- Aaron Cohen (@ImoveCar) January 19, 2021
The find eventually caught the attention of Korzhik himself, who tweeted: “I’m not a geologist, but I think this rock looks a lot like me.”
Me no geologist, but me think dat rock look a lot like me… https://t.co/444KeOrAbi
- Cookie Monster (@MeCookieMonster) January 25, 2021
A rock that the owner calls Cookie Monsternamed after the Sesame Street character, originally found in Soledady, Brazil in November. Bowers later took it to be examined by gemologist Lucas Fassari, who called the collector and said, “You need to see this.”
Bowers said he's already been offered the stone by a celebrity for $10,000, but plans to keep it for now. In the future, he is considering the possibility of donating the mineral to the museum.
Let us remember that agate is a mineral, silica,cryptocrystalline variety of quartz. It is a fine-fiber aggregate of chalcedony with a layered texture and a banded color distribution.
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Soledadi is a municipality in Brazil, part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Part of the mesoregion Northwest of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is part of the Soledadi economic and statistical microregion.