Apple Valley Jasper Stromatolite Slab! Lapidary Stone Slab! Jasperized We got lucky and found

We got lucky and found one right at the start of the 2022 mining season

They are believed to be closely related to modern day horseshoe crabs

they often link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods

This is from the same mountain that Native Americans use to collect from and knap from across the West Coast

Some may be slightly smaller or larger than that

Apple Valley Jasper Stromatolite Slab! Lapidary Stone Slab! Jasperized We got lucky and foundApple 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, they are still being formed! With Apple Valley Jasper, each layer is a unique story, as