Starry Jasper polished display specimen SJ127

SJ127.  Starry Jasper display specimen.

A rough rock, cut and polished on one side with a natural  back and a cut base to stand on.

Striking quartz veins cross-cutting in this specimen !

Lots of small cubic pyrite crystals on the back !

Dimensions at widest points approximately 220 mm x 110 mm x 60 mm thick.

Weighs 2,780 grams.

Starry Jasper is a vibrant red jasper with intrusions of quartz veining along with splashes of silvery , metallic looking pyrite.( Almost no pyrite in this piece)  It was collected many years ago from a large open cut gold mine at Reedys near Cue in Western Australia.