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In the early 1990ies Agate collectors could collect a  new type of lithophysae in a part of the township Zwickau called Planitz. A lot of these bluish agates  found a place in local agate-collections - even if the time for collecting these specimen was only short. After finishing some construktion work for a supermarket and a parking lot there was´nt any posibility to collect more of these agates.

Typically for these lithopysae are the dark brown coloured matrix. In the center not only agate was showing up. There could be found smoky-quartz as well as amethyst. Sometimes pseudomorphs after rhomboedrical carbonates could be found too.