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Jasper Madagascar


Harry Pristis

"Ocean Jasper is a silicon dioxide mineral that occurs in highly silicified rhyolite.

"This means that it is in the Quartz family and just like all other Jaspers it has a hardness of 6.5 to 7. Ocean Jasper is sometimes called Orbicular Jasper, a broad term given to several Jaspers displaying perfect circles throughout the piece. The peculiar orbs or "bull's eye" patterns are caused when Quartz and feldspar crystallize in radial aggregates of needle shaped crystals."(from entertheearth.com)

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