Jasper Yellow Green Gemstone

The swirling patterns the flecks of color daubs of red green and yellow the woody or organic looking patches all make this a truly unique gemstone.

Jasper yellow green gemstone.

The gemstone jasper jasper is an opaque variety of chalcedony and is usually associated with brown yellow or reddish colors but may be used to describe other opaque colors of chalcedony such as dark or mottled green orange and black. It comes in several colors. Owyhee jasper is originated from the border of oregon and idaho. Tsavorite is one of the most popular of the garnet varieties and due to its rarity it is quite valuable.

Jasper an aggregate of microgranular quartz and or chalcedony and other mineral phases is an opaque impure variety of silica usually red yellow brown or green in color. In fact it is sedimentary jasper or a petrified mud with interesting features as well. The word jasper means spotted or speckled stone and when you see the huge variety of gemstones that appear under this name you can understand why. It is a variety of the green grossular garnet and gets its striking green color from trace amounts of vanadium or chromium present during its formation.

The common red color is due to iron iii inclusions. It is a semi valuable stone in a mud covered red brown green and yellow color. Jasper is almost always multicolored with unique color patterns and habits. Yellow jasper is an opaque microcrystalline variety of quartz with large grainy crystals rather than the fibrous layers of chalcedony or agate.