Lavender Stone (Batu Raja)

Lavender Stone (Batu Raja) - Lavender is the agate stone or natural gems found in many OKU (Ogan Komering Ulu) precisely Sumatra in two villages namely Simpang and Segara Flower Lengkiti Oku District of southern Sumatra and is a much sought after types of agate that foreign collectors and even become one excellent gemstone among collectors.

Oku known that many regions produce different types of agate, only for the same type of quality stone only to other areas, not all of agate obtained shows good quality stone.

One of the original quality stone Oku and be excellent for the collector is the type of stone and stone spirits of lavender blue sky or also known as the Balfour lavender stones or other call such a stone wine lavender One of the types of stone ever won the national contest as a good quality stone the price is becoming increasingly higher market

Of the many gemstones quality that many of them are found in Balfour

- Stone Solomon,.
- Stone tapapk starlings.
- Stone Cempaka.
- Stone lotus.
- Stone Aren.
- Agate Blood.
- Stone Green moss.
- Stone sangkis.
- Red Lumut.
- Jade.
- Stone spritus (blue sky) and lavender.
Since then the original jewel Oku often be hunted many local and foreign collectors. Even sometimes collectors are hunting to the mine site to be able to obtain the stone as you wish. It's just to get the stone really is not easy and the quality of the collector must work optimally.

According to the Chairman of the Community Agate OKU, a collector who wants to mine must rent a plot of land to further excavations with added up to 4 meters. Even then, there is no guarantee of getting the stone as you wish.

Actually, in the local community Oku area who are putting a lot of various kinds of agate, Just to find quality stone is very difficult given the quality stones already sorted and become the owner of another collector who gets first.