November 2023 Polished Stones: Stone of the Day #23

This stone has a lot of detail going on within it. It appears highly fragmented, with a hint of white quartz.

Stone #23, Side A.

Stone #23, Side B.

A member of the Facebook Group “New Zealand Lapidary, Rocks, Minerals, Fossils” suggested that perhaps it is a brecciated jasper – a stone made up of small fragments of jasper cemented together in a fine-grained matrix of some sort.

I found this stone on Gemstone Beach on 11 February – it is the second stone featured in the Post “Southern Sojourn 2023(13): ‘Big Wave, My Friend’”. Photos of the stone when found on the beach are below. I was intrigued by the cross-shape white quartz veins on Side B – but the tumbling removed a lot of that.

Rough stone, Side A.

Rough stone, Side B.

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