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Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
02/10/2023, 09:44:01

It has bits of tigereye in it. At first I thought it might be petrified wood, but that seems doubtful.

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Re: Anyone recognize this jasper?
Re: Anyone recognize this jasper? -- beadiste Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: frank Post Reply
02/14/2023, 15:09:06

I've worked in Several jasper mines and prepared shipping containers of jasper to be shipped to China for bead making.Jasper deposits are now changing name with changing ownership. Everyone seems to be fighting for the name " Freedom Jasper " or simply making up a name with no historical context. The other problem is that many of the deposits are huge with a vast array of material within the deposit. Miners often curate the rough they sell so as it maintains an identity on the market with types they believe less marketable piled to the side. Most of the jasper going to China was mine run which means blast a deposit and screen out the small debris and send the rest off in shipping containers. Thus the typical and atypical are shipped together. Some of your jasper has characteristics of medium grades of a certain group of Mexican agates and the remainder looks like the voluminous low grade from those deposits. A certain amount of jasper rough has been made into beads in factories in Mexico in the last 20 years so they may have been made there.A lot of the stone that the Chinese mine in China and sell as jasper is actually various figured limestone which can approximate jasper well but which is not as durable.



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It's Pietersite
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Posted by: beadman Post Reply
02/15/2023, 00:05:02

An agate/chalcedony conglomerate from South Africa and (supposedly) China—that is swirled with tiger-eye (including ofter enough the red and blue varieties of chatoyant quartz). I have similar beads from China in my collections.



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Thanks, Frank & Jamey
Re: It's Pietersite -- beadman Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: beadiste Post Reply
02/21/2023, 16:39:33

Pietersite was my first guess as well, but then I talked myself out of it, lol. They're really pretty beads, I think, but don't do much for the cloisonne beads. One or the other, but not combined?



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I would tend to agree!
Re: Thanks, Frank & Jamey -- beadiste Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: Beadman Post Reply
03/05/2023, 12:14:42



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