Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Cabbing Rough Laguna Lace Agate

Laguna Lace Agate

Brecciated Whisky Creek Jasper is a world famous jasper mined by esteemed lapidarist Phillip Stephenson

or tumbling

Most of these are cut thinner

with some even showing gorgeous plumes

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Cabbing Rough Laguna Lace AgateThis slab does have some fractures and may need treated and stabilized to cab or polish. Apple Valley Jasper is collected from the same location and the popular Apple Valley Agate (Sahara Desert of Morocco), but it is actually a fossil stromatolite! Stromatolites are a form of ocean colonizing bacterial called cyanobacteria that get trapped in sediment layers! Stromatolites are one of the earliest known fossils, and in some locations around the world,