![]() Representative sample of one grab-bag of Mixed Tumbling RoughĬopyright by ColorWright - All Rights Reserved. It is found primarily on the back side of the El Toro Mountain Peak. ![]() Please NOTE: we cannot identify the stones in these parcels Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper is found near the city of Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County in Northern California. Some pieces could potentially be cabbed, as many of them are small bits These are mixed grab bags of tumbling rough.a little bit of everything! Mixed Material Tumbling Rough - $2.50/pound ORDER Rough Catalog Index Whats New Email Lists Return Policy Testimonials Contact UsĪgate Astrophyllite Azurite/Malachite Cacoxenite in Amethyst Chalcedony Chalcosiderite Chrysocolla Dinosaur Bone Flowerstone Jades Jasper Kingstonite Native Copper Lapis Lazuli Larimar (Pectolite) Malachite Montana Bark Petrified Wood Picasso Marble Rose Quartz Ruby-in-Fuchsite Selected Materials Seraphinite (Clinoclore) Shungite Sodalite Spectrolite Labradorite Stichtite Thulite Tiffany Stone (Bertrandite) Tiger Eye Turquoise Youngite Items marked sold may still be available there. Stones Tumblers Turquoise Rough Gift Ideas Saws Selenite Shungite Slabs Spheres & Polished Home Beads Books Fossils Cabbing & Carving Rough Cabochons Faceting Accessories Faceting Rough Jewelry & Pendants Lapidary Machines Rock They haven't been back since.Tumbling Rough Mixed, Chopstick Agate, Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper ColorWright The material was barely recognizable as Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper and I didn't see them sell any when I was there. No more from that source that I have heard about, though.Ībout three years ago some guys has a lot of the material for sale at our local Pow Wow (Snyder's Pow Wow in Valley springs, CA) but I looked through it somewhat and didn't buy a thing! The sellers said they found it as float. The local county sherrif went to the local rock shops and confiscated all that had been sold to them.Ī year or two ago I read where some people knew a rancher there who had a digging area for some really high quality material. He insisted that he got the stuff legally, which he obviously didn't do. He really screwed the local rock shops that bought material from him. He was brought back to California, but I never heard what the punishment ended up being. They went after him with a $200,000 warrant. The rangers said don't dig!!! He didn't listen and when the rangers got wind of his antics they went looking for him. The guy had moved the markers around to make it look like he wasn't digging in the park. The problem was that it was on the edge of the county park. Rainy day project.Ī few years ago a guy was quarring the material from a small hole in the ground. Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, found in Santa Clara County, California, is a famous, but increasingly rare orbicular jasper with red and yellow orbs. Often you find smaller pieces in rock shops that are really too fractured to cut, but I have a few set aside to try and stabilize with resins. It is often less fractured, but the poppies do not pop as much. In 2005 I saw the darker type vary from $6 to $10 a lb. ![]() may need to be logged into ebay to see completed auctions. Rocksj2b2 on ebay has had nice small pieces selling for $6 to $11 a lb, but some really nice bits went for $23/lb or even one lot that went recently for $33/lb. I have seen good stuff sell for $25 of $35 a lb. That chunk, which was about 7lbs cost me over $100 in 2008, and I was getting a discount because it was part of a shopping spree. I cut some slabs for material like that recently: Other poppies might show one or two rings around the poppy, and the color contrasts and sharper edges can be nice too. In my judgement, the darker varities are a little more altered and closer to MOHS 6 than MOHS 7. ![]() I cut some stones from material like that, which I got from Stoner, and was pleased: Some poppies are darker colored on darker background and have softer edges. Some of the nicest contrast poppies are in large older fractures that have filled with white quartz. The cracks were filled in by other substances. It is a brecciated jasper, meaning it probably came from sun-dried and oxidized iron-rich clay. Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper is a famous, but increasingly rare orbicular jasper with red and yellow dots of 'poppy flowers'. Poppies usually form before fracturing (lots of fractured poppies), but there have been multiple waves of fracturing. Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper Facts, Information and Description. It does vary across the area in how much iron (red/brown/purple jasper background) there is and the degree to which fractures are healed. ![]()
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