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Poppy Japer events in Morgan Hill, CA & Local new homes
                                                                             Sam Shueh
                                                  Realty One Group
 
Jasper is from chalcedony or quartz group.  It is a crystalline quartz that has ~20% of other materials.  Depends on the mineral embedded the color is determined by the composition. Many appear in multi-color, stripped. 
 
Morgan Hill, CA, a suburb of Silicon Valley is known to find jasper poppy stones in small quantities. Through a probate sale I even visited a property backed to a hill where the owner actually got into mining these stones.  He had all types of stone cutter, polishers.  I asked the permission to peek into the tunnel at the entrance. It was more like an air raid shelter size mining operation that owner had dug through his backyard hill. I believe a lot of diggings is still going on in town as I see them for sale on the internet. They come ... more

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