Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Yellow Jacket but most of the collection

but most of the collection was from Oregon and Washington

Photos were taken with the stone wet

similar to how a fire opal behaves

and one that not very much of ever went on the market

The last two photos are taken dry so you can see any potential defects

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite! Lapidary Slab! Yellow Jacket but most of the collectionApple 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, they are still being formed! With Apple Valley Jasper, each layer is a unique story, as