Mookaite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch Fossil Sonora Jasper is the trade

Sonora Jasper is the trade name for Sonora Dendritic

Bloodstone was known in antiquity as Heliotrope

with inclusions that appear in patterns similar to moss or lichen

most crystals are translucent

Malachite was used extensively as decoration in the palaces of Russian tsars and forms the columns of St

Mookaite 7x9-8x10mm Pebble - 15-16 Inch Fossil Sonora Jasper is the tradeMookaite is a variety of Jasper in colors of red, burgundy, pink, mauve, purple, yellow and white. It takes its name from Mooka Creek, near the Kennedy Ranges of Australia, the only region in the world where the stone is found. Mookaite is formed by the ancient skeletal remains of radiolaria, a microscopic protozoa with a silica shell, that were deposited in shallow sea beds. This later combined with additional silica in the groundwater as well as the