Talks To Sacred Stones — facia jasper

This beautiful material has been lab tested and is a pseudomorph of quartz after calcite. A pseudomorph occurs when one mineral has replaced another, retaining the structure of the original mineral. This find surfaced in Pilão Arcado, Bahia, Brazil in June 2021. I received a piece of the raw material from my supplier and sent it off for testing--it was so unusual!  It was not very colorful, but the structure was unlike anything I had seen before.  When I saw how beautifully it polished up I was very pleasantly surprised, to say the least, and I committed to buy the entire find....