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Striking Ocean Jasper Necklace with Bronze Accents (GRN-024) Sold

Striking Ocean Jasper Necklace with Bronze Accents (GRN-024) Sold

SKU: GRN-024

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The natural texture, patterns and colors of Ocean Jasper create a rustic look for the fashionable woman searching for a unique and attention-getting work of “Wearable Art.” The photos show both sides and varying views of these amazing stones, all of which are reversible! For this unusual necklace, Miriam chose to use faceted stones in two rough cuts. Horizontal oval stones and vertical abstract-shaped stones combine to give an exceptionally rugged look. The stones are set off by handwrought and beautifully textured bronze beads that are both square and oval-cut. Miriam also used Brass seed beads from Africa that are hand-rolled.

Necklace length is 24 inches.
The horizontal oval stones range from approximately 28-13mm (Center Focal Stone) to approximately 20-11mm.
The vertical-cut stones are approximately 20-24x13mm.
The Old World BronzeTMround and square spacers are 6-7mm.
Round spacer stones are 4mm.
Small hand-rolled round brass beads are approximately 1mm.

Ocean Jasper® is the trade name for this fascinating Orbicular Jasper, which is easily recognized by its distinct multi-colored orbicular patterns in vivid colors of browns, deep forest greens, and light-to-dark rusty red and even of translucent yellows, or touches of blues and lavenders.Depending on the size of the stone and how it’s cut, one color may dominate—but most stones show multiple and very distinct colorations. Magnifications around the edges of the orbs (circular patterns), show concentric rings (agate banding), with translucent tiny quartz crystal (Druzy) borders that look like starbursts or flowers. The stone was discovered in 1999 in Madagascar by a Frenchman named Paul Obeniche and introduced to the general public at the 2000 Tucson Gem Show. The name "Ocean Jasper" was given to the stone by Obeniche and Eugene Mueller of the Gem Shop. By the standard definition the stone is an Agate—Agate being translucent and Jasper being opaque. But it is called a Jasper because its rhyolitic patterns have been associated with the opaque jasper category. Also "Jasper" is listed as the mineral resource in the mining lands owned by Obenich. The word "Ocean" came from where the deposit was found--by the edge of the sea, along the northwest coast of Madagascar. Miriam suspects the stones in this necklace are from the Marovato Mine, which is directly on the shoreline. This mine is currently exhausted, which explains why the most vivid multicolor stones in this necklace are so hard to find.

Old World Bronze(TM) is handwrought using ancient casting methods that have been modernized by the Charveaux family of metalsmiths in Scottsdale, Arizona. Utilizing their carefully developed bronze formula, and the age-old “lost wax” method, each bronze bead is artistically designed and handcrafted.

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