Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Montana Agate or could be used for

or could be used for knapping arrowheads

The skin of this stone has a natural polish due to microscopic diamonds in the creek it was collected

It can have some pretty amazing designer cabochon potential

The majority of LapidaryCentral Birdseye Rhyolite is from the original old stock deposits and miners

and the new miner is now calling it Freedom Jasper

Apple Valley Jasper Slab! Fossil Stromatolite Slab! Montana Agate or could be used forThis 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,