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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 2721177, member: 15445&quot;]Here’s a neat sample for all you rock hounds:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616549[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616550[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ve had these samples in the collection for about 50 years. As a kid I imagined that the red spots were petrified dinosaur blood.&nbsp; The greenish colored stone is opaque and I believe it is commonly called blood-stone or blood-jasper.&nbsp; (Is that correct?)&nbsp; My examples have perfectly round red spots. Most of the examples on the Internet include either no red or streaks of red color. Perhaps some of our mineral experts are familiar with this stone.&nbsp; Here is a slice:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616551[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616557[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandmother once told me that blood stone was the official stone for the astrological sign Aries. That information stuck with me because my sign is Aries.&nbsp; My mother taught me that my birth stone for April was diamond. I&#039;ve tried mining diamonds in Murfreesboro Arkansas but came home empty-handed.&nbsp; Post ‘em if you got ‘em. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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