[Jewelry making - Article 00068] - Re: [Orchid] Agate or Jasper?

[shawn wiseman]

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    hello everybody, how agates vs jaspers was explained to me once is
    that agates let more light through than jaspers - in other words,
    the more opaque and solid the stone, it's a jasper. a stone with
    areas of translucence (?sp) is an agate. i'm sure there's more to
    the nomenclature than this, but this is how i've always separated
    the two. susannah

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