pacchardon
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Member since August 2015
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Post by pacchardon on Aug 15, 2015 11:20:31 GMT -5
I got some Leopard Jasper off eBay. I ran it thru a couple of weeks of 60-90 and lost a lot of material, much more than other jaspers run thru the same. I have since become aware of something called puddingstone. The pictures on Rock Shed look an awful lot like the 'Leopard Jasper'. Are they same thing?
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Post by captbob on Aug 15, 2015 11:37:50 GMT -5
Leopard skin "jasper" is actually more of a rhyolite than a true jasper. Rhyolite is somewhat softer than jasper. It can be tumbled and polishes well, you just need to treat it as a softer type stone.
I will leave the Pudding stone information to the experts here, which should be along shortly. They may be the same hardness (I don't know) but no, they are not the same thing.
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