Marine jasper source
Marine jasper is only produced in a small island or reef on the northwest coast of Madagascar, because there is no road, so Ocean jasper Chinese literal translation called marine jasper, in fact, a kind of agate, has a consistent hardness and structure, it has another common name is the eye Jasper or circle Jasper (agate), but to be clear here, jasper in many parts of the world are produced, such as India, America, Australia, etc., the hue produced in these places is general, different in color, But they can only be said to be relatively good-looking stones.
One of the rarer semi-precious stones than diamonds, the price has continued to increase in recent years. Various local or commercial names have been used for this jasper, such as Owish jasper, marine jasper, mainly depending on the source of the land, such as poppy jasper mainly from Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County, California.
Marine jasper, which has become a trademark name, refers only to the jasper produced on the northwest coast of Madagascar. In Nebraska, the United States, there are also circled jasper found in onyx-like altered rhyolite rock beds, and marine jasper produced in India and Australia is almost a different look, which is not mentioned here.
Marine jasper source
Can be transported out by small boat, it is said that there are more in the deep sea of East Africa, but to go to the deep sea mining is quite difficult, basically impossible to achieve, so the small island of Madagascar has become the largest production area, it is said that the earliest discovery in 1944, 1997 only found the original mineral land, the original mineral land is a very small reef, only at low tide can be exposed to the water, so only by boat, and only the marine jasper produced there is now commonly called ocean jasper in English.
Structure and formation
Of course, marine jasper is not the same thing as jade, it is actually a mixture of chalcedony, agate and crystal, and the degree of internal crystallization may be different, resulting in it becoming a symbiote of chalcedony, agate and crystal. There are also eye agates or circular agate in the Gobi, but unlike the clumpy mass agate in the Gobi, marine jasper is obviously deposited, so it is necessary to cut large pieces into small pieces and ponder them.
The value of marine jasper
In geology, spheroids are spherical bodies, which are grown from rays around the central point, like the spokes of the wheel to say that there is no collection value of marine chalcedony, and the pattern is good, there must be some, because its origin is only Madagascar, and the amount of existence is still particularly rare, if one day the production is reduced, there is no possibility of substitution, and the scarcity of the future can be clearly foreseen. If you meet a better quality. But this thing is really not jade, some merchants describe this thing very mysteriously, selling at a high price, before hearing that someone spent 6,000 abroad to buy a story of marine jasper, it was miserable, the pattern of this thing is indeed natural, but the price is not so expensive.
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