Ocean Wave Jasper Rough - $0.75/pound
Locality: Madagascar
Ocean Wave Jasper comes from Madagascar, near the Ocean Jasper site.
It has really great colors and can cut nice gemstones. PLEASE NOTE:
Ocean Wave Jasper is vuggy, which offers a challenge to the cutter.
For stones with a smooth face, filling surface voids is usually a
neccessity, or the surface can be left with a more natural look. Some
vugs contain tiny crystals!
Jasper is an opaque, microcrystalline form of quartz. As with any
microcrystalline quartz, it is hard and takes an excellent polish
with cerium or tin oxide.
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