Western Australian Mookaite Specimen | Museum Quality banded sample brooch Unlike many other guides

Unlike many other guides

for pierced ears

Hand painted in acrylic on balsa wood in bright desert colours

The specimen’s cut and polished points highlight clear facets

Format: Hardback 265x220x15mm

Western Australian Mookaite Specimen | Museum Quality banded sample brooch Unlike many other guidesThis polished mookaite jasper specimen from Western Australia is a museum quality mineral valued for its vivid colour variation and natural banding. Found exclusively in the Windalia Radiolarite region, mookaite is a silicified porcellanite (microcrystalline quartz jasper) highly sought after by collectors of Australian mineral specimens. Formed from ancient marine sediments, many specimens are fossiliferous, containing microscopic Cretaceous fossils