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Post by stephan on Feb 25, 2019 16:17:45 GMT -5
I have only seen jaspers similar to that in "Picture Jaspers from the Northwest" by Jensen and Gamma, 2015, which has awesome photos of the highest quality jaspers. Could be Morrisonite, Carresite or Blue Mountain - All three display similar colors with a wide variety of patterns. I think the book is out of print - Highly recommended if you like picture jaspers. My profile photo is (was) a big chunk of Carresite. I think R2D was correct in his post, looking at the order it was "Fancy Bloodstone from India". I ordered a regular bloodstone rock at the same time, also from India, that looked like Stephan's example entirely. The fancy variety produce a couple of regular-looking bloodstone slabs, but most had that paint splatter look...the fancy was also much less stable, both of the cabs I posted pictures of were originally different (and larger) shapes, but developed fractures clear across the cab and I had to pretty much start over on both. [ It doesn’t really look like fancy bloodstone to me either. The green looks wrong, and fancy bloodstone I’ve seen doesn’t have that “Jackson Pollock” look, just a greater proportion of red/orange/yellow. I’ve not seen it with so many fractures. As I understand it, in both”species,” the “blood” is inclusions, not the result of brecciation. I guess this is another example of trade names being used beyond their original scope, and taking on a life of their own — kind of like poppy jasper. In any case, you did great work with whatever it is. I never saw Hans Gamma’s book. I loved his website, which seems to have been hijacked. |
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Post by arghvark on Feb 25, 2019 18:21:07 GMT -5
Newb? Dayum. I can only hope I get something half as good within the first 50 or so once I get my equipment t sorted out! Gorgeous!
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Post by RWA3006 on Feb 25, 2019 20:01:20 GMT -5
The snakeskin and blue mountain are my favs.
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Post by beefjello on Feb 25, 2019 21:36:34 GMT -5
Those are some sweet looking cabs! I think the first two are my favs  |
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Post by swaver101 on Mar 7, 2019 4:07:20 GMT -5
Geeeze! I'd love to have some slabs of all of that material! Soo gorgeous! Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing
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