Happy Friday! Here is a jasper that will stop you in your tracks. This is Apache Dendritic Jasper.

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I acquired a few pieces from the mine owner who is a friend of mine. The material comes from New Mexico and looks like a "picture jasper", but this material has these amazing dendrites in it.

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Dendrites are manganese inclusions in rock that form tree-like structures. Dendrite the word comes from the Greek word Dendron meaning tree.

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What I love about these jaspers is they look like nature's canvas, like nature was painting scenery.

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Hope you enjoyed this and have a great weekend. I haven't been doing my Mineral Monday's series for the past few weeks because I have been so busy and I want that series to be high quality posts. I'd like to say I will be back Monday, but I am going rock hounding for tourmaline Sunday so probably not. I will have some free time in May so Mineral Mondays may not be back until then. There is so much going on with our gem & mineral business it's keeping me swamped at home and out in the field. That's a good thing right? Anyway, I'll keep posting these small blogs about material I am finding! Thanks for reading!

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