Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Cave Creek Jasper and I was just informed

and I was just informed that the mine this comes from has been permanently shut down

and the Jurassic Jasper Deposit

but she always delivers beauty

Southern California

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Cave Creek Jasper and I was just informedThis slab does have some fractures and may need treated and stabilized to cab or polish. Apple 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,