Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 30, 2014 20:49:21 GMT -5
I'm thinking this new one from the PNW could be classed as a Jaspelite. Super specular hematite with bright red jasper. Anyone with any familiarity with this type of stone want to educate me? Btw- I've got a few pounds of this available if anyone wants to make red soup in their rock saw....
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 30, 2014 21:14:25 GMT -5
Interesting! Looks like jaspelite all right. Funny, but an almost identical material was associated with the poppy jasper in one of the Hunters Valley digs. It was almost like the jasper did not get well organized into orbs or flowers and instead was more banded or swirly. Same colors and same included hematite but no poppies......Mel
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Good Earth
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Post by Good Earth on Jun 30, 2014 21:30:12 GMT -5
Mel- I really liked your photo set the other day showing the associated jaspers that organized with poppy being at the top. I'd say for sure this was part of the same soup that produced the poppy jasper, but possibly with a higher metal content. I don't see many poppy specimens with this much metal. Talk about heavy! This one is quite a bit heavier than the poppy as well... Maybe I'll do a photo post of our jaspers with a bottom to top organization like yours from CA.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 30, 2014 21:43:09 GMT -5
Lover jasper! Like the colors on that one! Crazy cool.....
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jun 30, 2014 22:13:46 GMT -5
Good Earth: Man, I wish I had brought one of the poppy boulders I had in my yard with me to Texas. It was very heavy as you've stated ( I know as I had to carry that one a long way to my truck way back when). That particular hunk was almost all hematite, extremely dark red and purple black and with only a few poppies against the darker hematite background. The lack of good poppies is why I left it in the yard of the old house. The jasper from the Firefly Jasper deposit is heavy in hematite too as are many of the other Hornitos Jasper types. Again, I'll bet your site and where I collected have extremely similar geology that results in very similar materials. Very interesting to us poppy lovers, to say the least. Love to see more pictures of your specimens or slabs!...Mel
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QuailRiver
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Post by QuailRiver on Jul 1, 2014 0:06:32 GMT -5
I'm thinking this new one from the PNW could be classed as a Jaspelite. Super specular hematite with bright red jasper. Anyone with any familiarity with this type of stone want to educate me? Btw- I've got a few pounds of this available if anyone wants to make red soup in their rock saw.... The Jasper in your photo reminds me of Mary Ellen Jasper. Larry C.
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Post by snowmom on Jul 1, 2014 6:39:33 GMT -5
makes me think of a red and black paisley bandana I had once. awesome pattern!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 1, 2014 8:35:20 GMT -5
Larry: Interesting comment as technically Mary Ellen Jasper, though stromatolitic, is chemically jaspelite. The Hunters Valley Jaspelite is supposedly marine sea bottom in origin too, though Jurassic in age, while Mary Ellen is I think, much older. Still again, super cool to see how similar geology yields similar lapidary materials in even far separated locations......Mel
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