8th Vein Ocean Jasper Orb

You will be receiving 10 8th Vein Ocean Jasper orbs. Just like all other crystal pieces they are unique and each is a bit different.

Ocean Jasper® is a trademarked name for a multicolored stone from Madagascar, typically with spherical patterning. Although commonly described as an orbicular jasper, the most recent research suggests it is the mineral chalcedony instead. Some pieces have agate banding or druses of clear quartz, a coating of tiny crystals, known more commonly as “druzy”.

The variety of quartz known as chalcedony is often unfamiliar to people. It is actually the mother stone of many semiprecious gems: banded chalcedony is better known as agate, red as carnelian, and black as onyx, etc. Its capacity to transmit light is a characteristic of chalcedony. By definition jasper is not translucent, unless cut extremely thin. (Information from Enter The Earth)

The colours are caused by various mineral inclusions.  Red comes from iron in the form of hematite, yellow or grey is clay and shades of brown tend to come from goethite.  

Ocean jasper is a registered trade name for what is now known to be a spherulitic chalcedony.  Chalcedony is a cryptocrystalline variety of quartz.  Cryptocrystalline means its crystals are too small to be seen with the naked eye.

A spherulite is a small rounded body often with a radiating structure made up of fibrous needle-shaped crystals.  They mostly occur in vitreous volcanic rocks.  The greyish white inclusions in snowflake obsidian are spherulites.  In ocean jasper the spherulites sit between grains of chalcedony and quartz.