Color:
red and Orange with brown modification

Durability:
Very durable

Localities:
World wide

Jasper is a mircrocrystalline variety of quartz known as chalcedony. It occurs in a number of different colors, such as red, brownish-red, brown and dark green. It is geologically common, forming at low temperatures when silica-rich ground water flows through sediments and rocks. Jasper had the reputation of a healing and protecting stone since antiquity. Wearing jasper made one safe from drowning, lung disease and scorpion bites. When engraved with a scorpion, it would stop bleeding. When engraved with a dog or stag, it it would cure demonic possession. Native Americans believed it could bring rain. Today, it is metaphysically considered a grounding stone, inspiring a deeper appreciation of nature.

Quartz Family: Amethyst Citrine Ametrine Rutilated Quartz Smokey Quartz Rose Quartz Dendritic Quartz Tourmalinated Quartz Phantom Quartz

Microcrystalline Quartz: Agate Chrysoprase Jasper Carnelian Bloodstone Onyx