Jasper Yellow Green Gemstone

Jasper breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone.

Jasper yellow green gemstone.

The swirling patterns the flecks of color daubs of red green and yellow the woody or organic looking patches all make this a truly unique gemstone. It is a variety of the green grossular garnet and gets its striking green color from trace amounts of vanadium or chromium present during its formation. It occurs in nodules or as fillings in fissures and may be found the world over. It comes in several colors.

Jasper an aggregate of microgranular quartz and or chalcedony and other mineral phases is an opaque impure variety of silica usually red yellow brown or green in color. The word jasper means spotted or speckled stone and when you see the huge variety of gemstones that appear under this name you can understand why. Tsavorite is one of the most popular of the garnet varieties and due to its rarity it is quite valuable. In fact it is sedimentary jasper or a petrified mud with interesting features as well.

Owyhee jasper is originated from the border of oregon and idaho. Yellow jasper is an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz with large grainy crystals rather than the fibrous layers of chalcedony or agate. It is a semi valuable stone in a mud covered red brown green and yellow color. Tsavolite is a new gemstone in the jewelry market.