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Royal Sahara jasper cab ~
Offered here is a designer cabochon of the splendid new Royal Sahara jasper, recently found in the North African Sahara desert. This exquisite porcelain material is quite perfectly astonishing, to say the least. It's silicified mud flows, or so I hear, much like the old Deschutes and Biggs Junction jaspers. But I think it has even wilder and more exotic patterns. This example is sort of a topsy turvy scenic, like a tiny window to another world where gravity does not rule. It has a patch of grayish blue agate at one side, filled with jet black dendrites, and above that, is an arch like one I once saw in the Arizona desert. Overhead was a big yellow full moon... and sandy dunes of various colors, one against the other, just like those in this amazing stone. It's awesome that something as artistic as this can form naturally, isn't it? The stone has a low but rounded dome of 4mm, a rounded teardrop shape that frames the patterns perfectly, and a brilliantly glassy polish both front and back.
Size: 50x27mm
Weight: approximately 43 carats
Price: SOLD Current gemstones for sale$89.00
 Royal Sahara jasper
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