Green Vein Jasper, Natural, Smooth Round in sizes 4mm, 6mm, 8mm & 10mm. Priced Per Strand

Green Vein Jasper, Natural, Smooth Round.

This price is for one strand 15 to 16 inches long. 

4mm strands have 90 to 95 pieces.

6mm strands have 60 to 65 pieces.

8mm strands have 43 to 48 pieces. 

10mm strands have 33 to 38 pieces. 

Green Vein Jasper is a lovely dark green stone with lighter green spotting.  It fits the traditional meaning of Jasper being a spotted or speckled stone.  There are so many names of Jaspers even sometimes for the same material.  We think a more accurate name of this stone should be "Green Spotted Jasper".    

Jasper is a member of the chalcedony family. It is usually an opaque stone with a solid color or an irregular display of colors caused by various mineral impurities. Its colors are usually red, yellow, brown, or green in color and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron inclusions. It often contains an abundance of impurities, and therefore some regard it as a rock instead of a mineral. Patterns arise during the consolidation process forming flow and depositional patterns in the original silica rich sediment or ash. The Jasper name means "spotted or speckled stone".

Jasper is known to have been a favorite gem in the ancient world; its name can be traced back in Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Assyrian, Greek and Latin. Jasper in mentioned many times in the Bible. Green jasper was used to make bow drills between 4th and 5th millennium BC. 

Hardness 6-7

This is a natural stone that has had no treatment other than cutting, drilling, and polishing.

The source of these beads is South Africa are cut, drilled and polished in China.