Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Caldera Paint Jasper With Apple Valley Jasper

With Apple Valley Jasper

These pieces often appear like standard black obsidian in normal lighting

Some are also suitable for knapping arrowheads

Here is a stunning slab of Ochoco Sunset Jasper mined by Bill Quant and showing some intricate pattern

that was around the 1960s and modernly the mine is same as tapped out

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Caldera Paint Jasper With Apple Valley JasperApple Valley Jasper is collected from the same location and the popular Apple Valley Agate (Sahara Desert of Morocco), but it is actually a fossil stromatolite! Stromatolites are a form of ocean colonizing bacterial called cyanobacteria that get trapped in sediment layers! Stromatolites are one of the earliest known fossils, and in some locations around the world, they are still being formed! With Apple Valley Jasper, each layer is a unique story, as