Mookaite Jasper Chips

Description

Mookaite jasper chips are a wonderful way to bring the colors of the Southwest into your favorite display or handmade goods. In what ways can you use these mookaite jasper chips in your living space?

Lot Sizes:

• 50g
• 100g

Grain Size: 7mm+, pebbles grain size, approx. 90-100g shown in main picture

One of our favorite suggestions for using gemstone chips in gemstone décor is to add them to a crystal or glass plate, bowl, vase, or other container. You can layer them or use them to surround figurines or other display pieces, too. With all of the colors and variation available in gemstone chips, there is almost always a complementary or accent color that will suit your personal style, Southwestern or otherwise.

About Mookaite “Jasper”

Why is jasper in quotes above? It’s complicated. Quoted from mindat.org:

“The term ‘Mookaite’ is an unofficial, locally coined name for a silicified porcelanite which forms in the weathering profile of a geological formation known as Windalia Radiolarite (WR), a Lower Cretaceous sedimentary unit that outcrops over much of the Carnarvon Basin in Western Australia.

Mookaite is variously, and incorrectly, described as chert, opalite, chalcedony or combinations of the three.
See also pink opal.

From a strictly geological perspective however, Mookaite is best defined as a silicified type of Radiolarite whose silification is opaline to chalcedonic.”

If you would like to learn more, start here.

If you like these chips, you’ll love these mookaite jasper dragon heads.

Please Note:

1. Sizes and weights are approximate. Dimension sizes can vary based on the way the rock is formed. We hand measure our pieces on the longest side. Please see the pictures in the listing.
2. The colors may vary due to monitor and lighting differences.
3. Please use your own judgment when allowing children to handle.
4. Not suggested for use in animal habitats or fish tanks.