THIS LISTING IS ONLY FOR A PAIR OF EARRINGS!
Earrings Teardrop 1 3/4" x 1 3/8" - A Matching pendant may be available for purchase on the Pendant page.
Details:
Stone: Blue Biggs Jasper · Origin: · Matrix: Blue, Brown & Black · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 1 3/4" x 1 3/8" Teardrop · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
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Blue Biggs Jasper Earrings - Teardrop
Biggs jasper comes from the canyon country along the John Day River near Biggs Junction in north-central Oregon ancient volcanic terrain where successive layers of ash and sediment were slowly replaced by silica-rich groundwater over tens of millions of years. The result is a picture jasper of extraordinary atmospheric quality, one of the most celebrated and collected jaspers in the American West and among lapidaries worldwide.
What makes Biggs jasper exceptional is its landscape quality the way its banding, color fields, and tonal shifts combine to suggest aerial views of canyon country, desert floors, distant ridgelines, and open sky. Collectors and cutters prize Biggs specifically for stones that read like paintings compositions that appear deliberate, considered, and complete, as if the earth spent millions of years arranging them for exactly this purpose. The finest Biggs material is collected, traded, and set with the same seriousness that fine art commands.
The blue Biggs material is among the most sought-after color variants the deposit produces. Where the more common Biggs palette runs to warm browns, tans, and ochres the colors of dry Oregon canyon country the blue material carries cool grey, slate, and soft blue-grey tones that shift the entire character of the stone toward something quieter, more atmospheric, more like sky than earth. The blue color comes from variations in mineral concentration during silicification subtle shifts in iron and manganese content that produce cooler tones in an otherwise warm-palette stone. It is rarer than the standard material and immediately recognizable to anyone who knows the deposit.
Biggs jasper is sometimes used interchangeably with Deschutes jasper in collector and lapidary circles both come from the same general region of north-central Oregon and share geological origins though purists distinguish between the two based on precise source location. What they share is the picture quality, the atmospheric banding, and the unmistakable sense that you are looking at a landscape that existed long before anyone was there to name it.
