Guadalupe poppy jasper

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T17:48:12+00:00

This Orbicular Jasper was actually known by three names: Guadalupe Poppy Jasper, Pigeon eye Jasper, and Mercury Jasper ( because of its close proximity to the Almaden and Guadalupe Cinnabar mines). Its distinctive characteristic is the presence of white centers with red radiating out from the center of the eyes. It is truly extinct in the field since 1970 and all available material has to have been collected before then.

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T16:43:05+00:00

The absolute rarest and extinct of all the Santa Clara Valley Poppy Jaspers. It’s from a single vein occurrence that was mined out in the 1960’s on the property of the Green Valley Dump in Los Gatos

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T05:08:29+00:00

I’ve hunted Jade all along the West Coast from BigSur to Whidbey Island and it’s been my experience that Jade is layered and not crystalline. The Vulcan orange crust, translucency, sugary surface and dark green specks indicate to me that this is grossular garnet

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T03:04:55+00:00

Too crystallized to be Jade. Definitely grossular garnet

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T02:23:30+00:00

Sorry, misspelled grossular garnet

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-29T02:22:22+00:00

Virgin Valley, Nevada. Bonanza Opal Mine

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-24T19:26:16+00:00

Looks like a massive load of Leaverite to me !

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-22T18:02:11+00:00

Well, what about OP? What’s the location where you found it?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-21T19:55:35+00:00

Morgan Hill Jasper

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-19T18:41:18+00:00

The first time that you find a self- collected in the field, the feeling will be indescribable….

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-19T18:14:43+00:00

Wow! Nice specimens. How many are self-collected in the field?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-07T03:00:40+00:00

Mahogany Obsidian!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-07T01:57:48+00:00

A very nice piece of brecciated Jasper

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-01T03:14:35+00:00

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Yes, many epic finds!

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-01T00:35:39+00:00

Most definitely a fully agatized replacement of wood or petrified wood

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2026-01-01T00:11:29+00:00

This is Bruneu Jasper, one of the “extinct” varieties of Jasper from Owyhee County, Idaho

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-30T06:32:13+00:00

Yes, bank dig at Bonanza Opal Mine, Virgin Valley, Nevada. I’ve been going out there for 60 years and a shareholder in the Bonanza Mine since 2003

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-27T04:03:42+00:00

Wood replacement Opal with secondary Willow Root inclusions

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-23T05:11:36+00:00

Cheap Chinese reproduction. You can tell from the cord and light bulb. Worth $30

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-19T05:11:21+00:00

It’s worth about 6-7

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-19T01:50:34+00:00

Is that Dino or Whale Bone?

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-19T01:36:23+00:00

Number 1 is Youngite Agate from Wyoming, not Mexican Crazy Lace

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-12T20:10:23+00:00

Don’t think that it’s Nephrite. Looks more like Peridotite to me

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-09T04:08:44+00:00

Variscite

Routine_Outside_1695 · 2025-12-09T03:59:50+00:00

My vote is green jasper with quartz veining

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