This was so interesting! I know nothing about Mookaite so I'm glad you've chosen to talk about it. Why are there so many crystal myths!? Crystals ending with ite can't be in water? 🤨 Uh, nah. You're right, that's weird and incorrect. I'm a rock hound and I go hunting for Dallasite which is only found on the island where I live. It can be found in rivers, creeks and the ocean at low tide. Basically where there's flowing, moving water, there's Dallasite lol. It's so interesting to see what myths are being spread within the crystal community. Your myth-busting portions of your videos are much appreciated 💯
Nice! All jasper and chert (with few exceptions) is "fossil"-derived sedimentary silica, deposited in shallow seas, by definition. Technically the creatures didn't get a chance to fossilize before their silica bodies dissolved into silica gel to makeup the rock. Agate for example almost exclusively refers to concentrations of silica within igneous rock, but the silica is often still sourced from sea-life above it. Mookaite isn’t unique in the radiolaria regard but it does have outstanding hardness and density comparable to other top jaspers. It’s very easy to cut and polish, and its apparent abundance and proximity to China/India makes it a popular and economic stone for mass carvings. Check out Imperial Jasper, Morrisonite, Bruneau Jasper, Blue Mountain Jasper, Owyhee Jasper, Willow Creek Jasper for more exceptional jaspers, all with unique patterns and colors, but not often mass carved like Mookaite for rarity reasons. I think fossiliferous might be a term for specific specimens of rocks that exhibit fossils. I wouldn't call all mookaite fossiliferous based on the radiolaria origin alone, But there could be other fossils that got trapped in the silica gel that make it "fossiliferous". Do you have any visible fossils in your mookaite collection? I haven’t inspected the few I have too closely, but haven't noticed any. I actually assumed its exceptional density/purity was from a lack of fossil inclusions tbh. We have some nice jasper near me that is practically junk because there are fossilized cavities of crinoid segments every few centimeters interrupting the otherwise pure jasper/chalcedony. Thanks for all the videos! I hope you don't mind my long comments w/ critiques. I enjoy learning n talking about rocks and you're so pretty and well-spoken with them. I could listen to you talk about rocks all day! I can tell you read and absorb the comments which I really appreciate, entertains my fantasy that we're having a discussion together. Most of the jaspers I listed can show a very desirable orb pattern. It's intriguing how different jaspers from around the world can exhibit the orbs. There's a correlation between orbs and fine, hard, outstanding jaspers. Mookaite strangely isn't known for it, but I'd love to learn more about orbicular jasper formation if you want another topic to explore. Orbicular doesn't seem to be the right word for google, little dots in ocean jasper isn't what I mean. But if you look up Blue Mountain you'll most likely see examples.
Oomgg mookaite is my favorite too!! Hope to own some sooon. 🫡 I loove your vids Emilie. Very interesting and entertaining indeed. Don’t see that anywhere else. Can’t wait for all the new stuff coming this month. Keep up the good workkk🌞✨
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This was so interesting! I know nothing about Mookaite so I'm glad you've chosen to talk about it.
Why are there so many crystal myths!? Crystals ending with ite can't be in water? 🤨 Uh, nah. You're right, that's weird and incorrect. I'm a rock hound and I go hunting for Dallasite which is only found on the island where I live. It can be found in rivers, creeks and the ocean at low tide. Basically where there's flowing, moving water, there's Dallasite lol.
It's so interesting to see what myths are being spread within the crystal community. Your myth-busting portions of your videos are much appreciated 💯
Thanks 💗👍🏼
Thank you ❤
Nice!
All jasper and chert (with few exceptions) is "fossil"-derived sedimentary silica, deposited in shallow seas, by definition. Technically the creatures didn't get a chance to fossilize before their silica bodies dissolved into silica gel to makeup the rock. Agate for example almost exclusively refers to concentrations of silica within igneous rock, but the silica is often still sourced from sea-life above it. Mookaite isn’t unique in the radiolaria regard but it does have outstanding hardness and density comparable to other top jaspers. It’s very easy to cut and polish, and its apparent abundance and proximity to China/India makes it a popular and economic stone for mass carvings. Check out Imperial Jasper, Morrisonite, Bruneau Jasper, Blue Mountain Jasper, Owyhee Jasper, Willow Creek Jasper for more exceptional jaspers, all with unique patterns and colors, but not often mass carved like Mookaite for rarity reasons.
I think fossiliferous might be a term for specific specimens of rocks that exhibit fossils. I wouldn't call all mookaite fossiliferous based on the radiolaria origin alone, But there could be other fossils that got trapped in the silica gel that make it "fossiliferous". Do you have any visible fossils in your mookaite collection? I haven’t inspected the few I have too closely, but haven't noticed any. I actually assumed its exceptional density/purity was from a lack of fossil inclusions tbh. We have some nice jasper near me that is practically junk because there are fossilized cavities of crinoid segments every few centimeters interrupting the otherwise pure jasper/chalcedony.
Thanks for all the videos! I hope you don't mind my long comments w/ critiques. I enjoy learning n talking about rocks and you're so pretty and well-spoken with them. I could listen to you talk about rocks all day! I can tell you read and absorb the comments which I really appreciate, entertains my fantasy that we're having a discussion together.
Most of the jaspers I listed can show a very desirable orb pattern. It's intriguing how different jaspers from around the world can exhibit the orbs. There's a correlation between orbs and fine, hard, outstanding jaspers. Mookaite strangely isn't known for it, but I'd love to learn more about orbicular jasper formation if you want another topic to explore. Orbicular doesn't seem to be the right word for google, little dots in ocean jasper isn't what I mean. But if you look up Blue Mountain you'll most likely see examples.
I love mookaite! I didn't know it was made of fossils 😊
Oomgg mookaite is my favorite too!! Hope to own some sooon. 🫡
I loove your vids Emilie. Very interesting and entertaining indeed. Don’t see that anywhere else. Can’t wait for all the new stuff coming this month. Keep up the good workkk🌞✨
Thank you 😁