Dragon Jasper
Quartz & Crystal Family
Dragon jasper is an inconsistent trade name, not a distinct mineral or formally defined jasper. In this catalogue it refers to epidote-bearing quartzite: a mixed rock in which green epidote occurs with quartz and produces a mottled or veined pattern.
Identity
- Material or variety
- Jasper (opaque microcrystalline quartz)
- Scientific or material identity
- Jasper (opaque microcrystalline quartz)
- Classification
- Rock or mixed mineral material
- Aliases or trade names
- Dragon stone · Dragon blood jasper
- Composition or formula
- SiO₂ with mineral inclusions
- Crystal system or structure
- Aggregate or composite structure
- Geological or manufacturing origin
- Can form in more than one geological environment, or combines several materials.
- Mohs hardness
- 6.5 to 7
- Specific gravity
- 2.58 to 2.91
Origins
Australia · South Africa
Appearance & optical properties
mottled green and black epidote quartzite.
Uses & care
- Common uses
- The patterned rock is polished into beads, tumbled stones, cabochons, spheres, and small carvings.
Jewellery
5 pieces of Dragon Jasper jewellery. Learners earn each one in DigMyGem by learning words; until then it shows as a silhouette.
Dragon's Eye Pendant
Pendant
An imagined pendant set with a mottled green-and-red stone. Dragon jasper takes its name from the way its patterns coil like scales.
Wyrmscale Crown
Crown
An imagined circlet engraved with overlapping scales, one small stone in each. It plays on the serpentlike name of the stone.
Dragonclaw Brooch
Brooch
An imagined brooch of a claw clutching a single oval stone. The mottled cabochon is the whole of the design.
Dragon Coil Bangle
Bracelet
An imagined bangle whose two gold dragon heads meet at the front, each clasping a cabochon of mottled green and red dragon jasper.
Dragon Throne Sceptre
Sceptre
An imagined sceptre crowned with a dragon's head carved from dragon jasper, green scales splashed with blood red.