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Product Description
Chapenite Jasper Unpolished Lapidary Rough Rock
This lovely and rare piece of Chapenite is an endcut, slabbed on one face-natural rough on the back, and is 4.4 inches by 4.2 inches and 4-24 mm thick.
It weighs .54 lbs. and is shown wet in the first 3 pictures.
Chapenite (sometimes spelled Chapinite) is a nodular fine grained brecciated jasper from the Ft. Irwin locality, in the Mojave Desert, California, south of Barstow.
Chapenite is a jasper that formed millions of years ago and then was broken up by seismic shaking from within former marine sedimentary deposits. Then, as time passed, the silica laden waters infiltrated the cracks and healed the cracks.
It was named after Howard Chapin, who first recognized this material.
This area is on a military base and has been closed to collecting for a long time, making material of this quality somewhat rare.
