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Product Description
Chapinite Jasper Polished Collector Rock
This lovely and rare piece of Chapinite (or chapenite) is slabbed and polished on one face, left natural rough on edges.
This polished collector piece is 5 inches by 4.2 inches and 3/4 inch thick.
It has 2 natural surface flaws and it does not stand on its own.
Chapinite is a nodular fine grained brecciated jasper from the Siam Siding site, in the Mojave Desert, California, about 30 miles south of Barstow.
Chapinite 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 has been pretty much picked clean for awhile now, making material of this quality somewhat rare.
