Hmmmm, Poppy Jasper ...

You do know I don't do cabbing don't you. Is this tumble material? I want some because I just saw someone else (apologies for not taking note of your name, my concentration was thwarted when I saw your poppies*) posting about their finished batch and I said to myself, ' I just gotta get hold of some of that stuff.' Like ya do. Well like I do anyway.


* Normally said 'when I saw your puppies', but thats for a different forum altogether.

Have your other two parcels arrived yet?

Wrapping mat / photographic mat is on way too. Maybe Fri, maybe Sat.



Hey, you helping me hijack my own thread.

John, Since I am a poppy jasper nut, orbicular and flowering jasper is what I always look for first off at any show I go to and like Shannon says, most all varieties of true jasper ( not rhyolite) are getting very scarce. Most the Morgan Hill/Guadalupe areas have been built over or are in parks where you cannot collect. Lot of poppies still to be found up around Hornitos but access is difficult unless you live there and know the folks and the back roads, and the brush has grown over most all the old pits from the 60's. There are a lot of other sites all up and down the coast but most is private property and most outcrops are pretty small. Probably the best place for poppy jasper is the Snyder Ranch pow Wow that was just a week or so ago. I was there last few years and prices for typical fractured Morgan Hill stuff ran $5-15 per pound in the rough. Only a couple of folks had Hornitos Jasper and it was about $15 per pound but was in big boulders so they ran hundreds of dollars. They had good stuff though and it was pretty solid so well worth the price. Guadalupe ran about the same if you could find it and Ocean Jasper was also in the $15+ per pound range and I was amazed at how badly the quality has gone down in the last few years. Overall, it could be said that decent poppy jasper is now getting scarce and expensive.....Mel