They may be ubiquitous, but they are beautiful! Jasper spheres are so common that they are often underappreciated. Nevertheless, if you are sphere collector, they sure can liven up your life! The vast variation in color and pattern is captivating. And they come from everywhere! Here’s a global survey of the wonderful world of jasper. And to celebrate this underappreciated stone, Sphere’s To You is offering everything in its jasper stock over 1.25 inches for 25% off until Oct. 31. Happy Halloween!

Cherry Orchard
Love this one! Stark blood red dots and spots stand out against a dark grey background. Sharp contrast.

Orange Breciated Jasper
Luminous orange color broken up into pieces that all just seem to fit together.

Picture
Looks like someone took a black marker to brown sand—drawing beautiful designs.

Red River
One of our faves! A cool crisp river of white quartz running in a luscious sea of fire engine red!

Tabu Tabu
Red! Red! Red! This looks like a patchwork quilt of striated red on red.

Bigg’s Jasper/Oregon
This brown pattern jasper is a long time favorite. Every piece is unique.

Blue Mountain/Oregon
Arresting blue/green color…like a peaceful quiet body of water.

Bruneau Jasper/Oregon
This elegant stone was found in the 1920s by a rockhounding couple named Kirby, who went on to become known for their large collection of handmade spheres. It is a glassy reddish golden brown material with beige segments often outlined with circular patterns.

Burro Creek Jasper/Arizona
Lovely lavendar material with different shadings.

Green Bog/Oregon
Petrified for millions of years in the Oregon bogs…intriguing mix of green, tans and gold.

Green Cloud
Indeed looks like fluffy golden clouds gathering to protect a field of hunter green.

Green River/Oregon
Leprechaun green with black tracery.

Harquehela Jasper/Arizona
Northern Arizona produces this pretty olive green and pink material, which is sometimes almost banded.

Indian Blanket Jasper/Wyoming
This has lovely pink and lavender markings on a dusty off-white background. Usually the material is a matte finish, not a high polish.

MaryEllen Jasper/Minnesota
While MaryEllen is called a jasper, it has organic beginnings as a prehistoric microorganism—a stromatolite. You can clearly see the footprint of the creatures in the stone. Mary Ellen is generally red or red on black, or a very pretty dark green with beige.

Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper/California
A prized material that is even more so because the mine is closed. This unique stone features orbs in reds and golds, sometimes against a matrix of the opposite color, sometimes outlined in olive green, sometimes against a sea of quartz.

Morrisonite/Oregon & Idaho
Morrisonite is a stone that’s mined out, but pieces of it occasionally crop up on the market. The dominant color is a rich olive green, with gold or brownish offset and unusual patterning, seldom the same from piece to piece

Mushroom/Arizona
See through quartz-like “mushrooms” on a bright gold and red material.

Owyhee Jasper/Oregon
Golds, browns, reds…lots of nice earthtones. One variation is “Owyhee Sunset” jasper, which truly has the striped beauty of a soft sunset.

Polka Dot Mine/Oregon
This is fun material. Most of it really does have brown polka dots on a glassy white or bluish surface.

Rainbow Ridge/California
A line of red threads its way through various shades of golds and blacks.

Rocky Butte/Oregon
The dominant colors here are in the red/pink/ burgundy range. This can take a nice polish and be very striking.

Rojo Verde Jasper/Arizona
As its Spanish name implies, this jasper contrasts light red and pale green banding.

SpiderWeb Jasper/Idaho
Small veining on greenish/ golden spheres that really looks like interlocking spider web markings.

Stone Canyon/San Miguel, CA
The predominant color in Stone Canyon is a golden yellow, but it can be found in combination with green, with blue, or with reds. This lovely stone looks breciated, but combines color in a fascinating way—almost as if it was a puzzle.

Succor Creek/Oregon
Blue/green matrix contrasts with a yellow/gold pattern, mostly circular. These pieces often look like a bird’s eye view of the earth. We think Succor Creek is often overlooked.

Velvadee/Oregon
A nice mix of red and cream.

Willow Creek Jasper/ Oregon
A similar look with peachier coloring, Willow Creek is more prevalent today than Bruneau, which is seldom found in anything larger than 1.5 inches.

Brick and Mortar
Dark rust red veins snaking through cream “mortar.”

Maramamba
This is big gobs of tiger eye offset by red jasper, olive green jasper and golden jasper…a stunning mix!

Rain Forest
Jungle green jasper with little windows of peach and blue quartz. A unique and fun stone!

Red Flame
Deep red swirls of “flame” against a cream background.

Silver Leaf
Silvers matched against white quartz—shadow colors..moody!

Autumn
Oozing the striped colors of a South American summer…Reds, golds, browns – tinged with pink.

EarthToned
This is really different—Dark red, brown, gold, cream in bold markings.

Green Pattern
Cool geometric patterns of rich green  and offwhite—circles, dots, squiggles.

Peach Bull’s Eye
Lucious creamy peach body with a dollop of white on the top…in circular pattern

Red Geometric
Rust red lines running rampant against an offwhite background

Peach Banded/Gobi Desert
Beautiful perfect banding in various shades of peach. A cool sphere from a hot region.

Kambaba
A relatively new find…Deep green with black outlined “eyes” that stare back.

Ocean Jasper
What can we say about this except it was the jasper find of the century! Every color of the rainbow was represented in stone with a huge variation in pattern, dominated mostly by orbs of every different size against backgrounds ranging from white to dark hunter green, peach to pink to red to mustard yellow. Uniquely colored druzy pockets sitting amidst a riot of color. The sad part is that this mine is now closing because that last of the good material is now gone, though much rough still abounds in dealer’s stock, but it is not the quality of the earliest spheres. Grab it while you can!

Ocean Wave
Very pretty variation of Ocean Jasper that features only waves or striations of pink, blue and green. Often overlooked.

Polychrome
This is a beautiful, classy jasper that marries earthy colors in an almost etheric blend—some have landscape formations, others circular or with swirls…peach, rustic greens, greys, pinks, oranges and golds predominate. Polychrome means multiple colors!

Easter Egg Jasper
A calcite/aragonite mix, so named because it looks pretty and sweet—with multiple rings of glistening red/peach/pink calcite

Dalmation Jasper
Cream with black spots. Yes, indeed it looks just like that firedog in the old pictures.

Imperial Jasper
A dreamy mix of greens, pinks and reds in luscious patterns that just draw you in. Glassy polish.

Leopard Skin Jasper
Actually looks more snakey, than leopard with browns, tans and beiges and once in awhile peach

Purple Jasper
Lavendar and purple shades of loveliness.

Vaquilla Jasper
Beautiful mixed patterns of reds and golds—almost like a moss agate

Green Tree
A white stone that looks like little dendrites of dark green running hither and yon.

King Cobra
Long a favorite, but you see less of it today than 10 years ago..Gold and cream orbs either space out for defined “eyes” or cramp together in a riotous fashion.  On rare occasions you might find one all in a pinky peach!

Baguaia Stone
A deep rich green stone defined with even darker green markings, considered of metaphysical value.

Red Poppy
A nice orange red/poppy jasper with very distinct orbs against a white background.

Peruvian Orange
Plain rich golden orange…Nothing fancy, just in-your-face bright!
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You might be surprised by some of the many reasons that our customers buy spheres. Sure there are the collectors and the healers, who are the vast majority, but we get inquiries from many different creative and scientific people. Our first “unusual” approach came from a military scientist who wanted glass spheres for use in an underwater experiment. We frequently provide spheres to artists, including those developing 3-D renderings of the solar system, or sculptors who need a sphere to complete their vision—for example a mermaid standing over a pool holding a giant “black pearl.” Occasionally we hear from carpenters or builders looking to top off staircase railings with beautiful marble or onyx spheres. Board game players will sometimes wish to upgrade their pieces with higher quality spheres and we fill those orders. Naturally we get people requesting spheres for fountains and other water displays. We have a customer who uses spheres in mobiles and hanging artworks. One person ordered a sphere for a Hindu temple that is being built in Hawaii with materials imported piece-by-piece from India and housing a world-famous large and powerful crystal at its heart.

Our marble buyers are often seeking spheres to put in into jewelry, such as pendant cages or rings with places for interchangeable tiny spheres. We also fill requests from grandfathers wishing to teach their grandchildren the grand old game of marbles—played with “aggies.”
Our healer clientele use spheres for many different purposes. Some use them for laying on, around or holding above individuals they are treating. Some hold marbles in their hands at night to intensify their dreams and magnify their intentions. There is very popular application of scrying (crystal gazing). Other energy workers use different minerals in sphere form as components for energy-harnessing and directing devices.

Spheres To You is also a handy international gift-giving center. Reports Marcela who managed our sales office for several years:  “I met my good friend, Jo, in Australia, when she ordered a sphere gift to be selected and sent to a friend in Los Angeles, and there are others internationally that have done similar international gift-sending.”

So you see…the reasons are endless. Please feel free to add your own!
 

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It’s so much fun to open a gift and see something you didn’t expect. That’s the beauty of included quartz! Beside the loveliness of the quartz itself, there’s a little surprise inside!

And while most of us are familiar with the fabulous rutilated quartz with red, gold, white, platinum, silver and iridescent rutiles—as well as black tourmalinated quartz--there are so many other interesting inclusions!

Among our favorites are “layer” inclusions or phantoms that let you look through multiple planes.  Sometimes these are manifested with green chloride inclusions. If you are real “lucky” you might find one with a pyramid! Or even a rhomoboid.

We love intersecting planes, too!

Sand and mud patterns can be interesting…Sometimes wavy planes or circles—or a combination of both!

Have you ever seen a water bubble in a quartz sphere? These can be static or they may actually float in tiny caverns.

Very cool spheres are those with “floaters,” small crystals inside the crystalline sphere. These can be especially nice when they are doubly terminated or cubed. Some simply have multiple crystal points floating in them.

Other interesting inclusions include landscapes, metallic “mountains,” other minerals (apatite crystals or reflective hematite, for instance), crusted rutiles, or other organic elements that add a small bright orange or yellow “cloud.”

So if you’re someone who thinks that good things come in small packages, check out our included quartz!

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DENVER REPORT

New materials are getting harder to find at mineral shows, but we still manage to unearth some treasures.
Here are the find at Denver this year:
o Brilliant Orange Irridescent Rutile in Quartz
o Fabulous Turquoise Blue Druzy Chrysocolla on Stark Brown Matrix
o Stunning Amber Citrine with Fiery Rainbows
o Nepalese Blue Sapphire Crystals in Black and White Matrix
o Narsarsukite—a Russian mineral which looks like gold cubes on dark green matrix
o Red Crystal Willemite in Matrix
o Sengelite—Fossilized Blue/Green Algae
o Quartz with a Moving Water Bubble
o Sparkly Garnet and Biotite—Half and Half Split in Middle
o Staurolite—Brown Star on Cream Matrix
o Pink and Green Striped “Mountain” in Quartz
o Chrysocolla with Metallic Copper Flecking
o Wonderful New Oregon Opals
o Yellow or Blued Celled Dino Bones
o Andes Jade with Orange Garnet Crystals
o More of that Incredible Fiery Grade A Red Sphalerite

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THE SPHERICAL WORLD
Editor:  Jackie Lapin
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Sphere’s To You
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Phone: (8l8) 991-5143
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