Jasper Yellow Green Gemstone

Tsavolite is a new gemstone in the jewelry market.

Jasper yellow green gemstone.

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. It is a semi valuable stone in a mud covered red brown green and yellow color. Owyhee jasper is originated from the border of oregon and idaho. The common red color is due to iron iii inclusions.

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. The gemstone jasper jasper is an opaque variety of chalcedony and is usually associated with brown yellow or reddish colors but may be used to describe other opaque colors of chalcedony such as dark or mottled green orange and black. Jasper breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It comes in several colors.

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. In fact it is sedimentary jasper or a petrified mud with interesting features as well. Yellow jasper is an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz with large grainy crystals rather than the fibrous layers of chalcedony or agate. Tsavorite is one of the most popular of the garnet varieties and due to its rarity it is quite valuable.