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Jasper — specimen 0600, photo © NMNHS
Jasper — specimen 0600, photo © NMNHS

Jasper — specimen 0600

Origin

North America
USA, Idaho, Owyhee County, Bruneau
Jasper — specimen 0600, locality map
Data

Weight: 18.55 ct; size: 26.82 | 15.54 | 4.13 mm; shape: freeform; colour: dark red; clarity: opaque; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Clean specimen; excellent cabochon style cut by Nathan Christensen, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Other specimens
Jasper — specimen 0627

More information from ‘Classification’

Jasper

A dense, opaque, microcrystalline variety of chalcedony; usually red, brown or yellow and coloured by oxides of iron.


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