Beautiful blue jasper, From an outcropping of rocks on my brother's ranch just outside of Prineville Oregon. I went up to visit recently, and my brother said: "get in the truck" and off we went. My eyes popped out when we arrived at this outcropping on a low ridge, of blue, bluegreen, and green jasper, all covered with a thin brown desert varnish. All we had in the pickup was a single bit axe, but we were able to knock a few small chunks off the outcropping, and I promised him that I would slice a piece up and put it on Ebay, to gauge the market reaction. I hope you guys love it, because I would dearly love to take a cat up there and see what we could dig out. There tends to be partially healed yellow mineral lines in this rock, which could part the slab. some of them snap along those lines, and some dont. The jasper is good and cherty, I bet it will cab and knap out swell.

I told my brother not to expect too much, as I don't see much patterning within the rock, and The outcropping is weathered. Better material tends be down underground, below the frostline; but then again, I dont run across blue jasper every day either...

Hope you like it. I would love to get my big brother weaned off of selling beef cattle, and hooked on digging up rocks!!!!

I had my sister go dig several more pieces out, in the snow, last week, and mail them down to me. Here's the first Slab off the new batch. My sister showed this rock to a well respected Prinville Rockhound, and was told that the locals know about this jasper outcropping. It has a name: Ditch Jasper, and was first discovered when a rancher was digging a flood irrigation ditch or flume around the side of that ridge.

Weight 6.4 oz.

Size: 5.8" x 4.3" x 7mm thick.

Photographed wet, and dry, under a 60w lightbulb. Photos not enhanced in any way.

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