hey what's up everybody welcome back for another cutting video today we're going to be cutting
up and slabbing some mary ellen jasper that i have found on our rock hunting adventures mary
ellen jasper is a stromatolite it's an ancient fossil and the first one you saw me cutting is a
possible green stromatolite i haven't looked at it yet i'm pretty excited it's got some really
beautiful swirls on the outside i'll show you that and then we'll look at it on the
inside right now so here's that first piece of jasper you can see right in here some swirl like
patterns which is common with marielle and jasper you can see it a little bit better right there
and jasper up here in minnesota and the lake superior region can come in many different colors
most of the maryland jasper is that dark red almost maroonish like color it's
really beautiful stuff let me get this wet the bucket right here again i have
not looked at it we'll look at it together let's see if this is a stromatolite or not
oh absolutely absolutely it is check that out right there oh my goodness
wow wow that is so pretty so many fractures in these pieces though that's a bummer
but look at those details right there oh my goodness we're off to a great start
those are some very beautiful details the next one we have here is another one that i think is
a stromatolite it's a very weird shape compared to the other ones but as you can see right there
very very beautiful i'm really excited about this one so we're just gonna go and make some
cuts through it and slab this one up and if it's that same beautiful pattern we'll
make some cabs out of it down the road so let's fire the saw back up cut it up
let's check this piece out right here
oh my gosh oh my goodness
golly
that's so beautiful
can you believe this is a fossil it's an ancient algae wow
that is pretty cool i'm gonna slab this one up hopefully get
two more out of this this is really pretty
alrighty so that was pretty pretty good i haven't looked at the inside of this one but i did catch
a peek on the back side of this one so this is the very first one that we cut i think what does it go
together like that so the other side i caught a peek at this i'm not sure what all these little
darker speckles are in there yeah i'm not too sure i'm not crazy about that to be honest i don't like
that very much i'm more of a fan of the pure miss like that but let's see what this one looks like
oh that is pretty look at that easily could get some cabs out of
this area in this series so i'm really happy with that gosh that is so crazy
so pretty i mean this is pretty in its own right i just prefer this we are off to a great start
so we have that one this green one that we've already cut and then we got these two right here
i really don't want to cut these but they're just sitting there and i'm gonna find more
hopefully probably so i'm just gonna cut these up i'm saving this one for last because this
is probably the best one that i have these were both found on the north shore they're beach worn
that's why they look a little different than the last piece but yeah we'll save this
beauty for the very last but let's cut this one and uh see what's going on in there
oh yes that is so pretty go cut this one more like that and then this one like that
that's pretty sweet though
so we got through that entire piece and i think i only had one little whoopsie
on it i had one of the slabs kind of get away from me got a little too thin i don't know what
happened there but we followed through with it but it is some beautiful stuff beautiful beautiful
beautiful on the insides let me get in some better light here alrighty that is much much better
so pretty
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this one i'm gonna do something fun with it i'm gonna make a little display piece out of it
so that'll be that'll be fun a little project down the road
yeah this this one i really love that really love how that's looking
i don't know what i'm going to do with this that's a little thin maybe a bookmark
all right so the last piece that we have for mary ellen jasper is this guy right here
and i'm gonna go and cut it right down here at first and then we'll see what it
looks like on the inside see what's in my most favorite piece of mary ellen jasper
well that took a while but we did it we got that piece cut
i'm going to rinse it off quick it's got a couple little bits and stuff
haven't looked at it i'm so excited let's see what's going on on the inside of this piece
oh my gosh
get out of here that's so beautiful yes oh that makes me happy
makes me makes me so happy weird fracture running through there right there
interesting really really beautiful though
yep i like that i think i might try to turn this into a display piece and i'll just give it a nice
rounded it'll be huge big rounded face really great display of mary ellen jasper and then
this piece right here it's already thin enough where we cut we can cut some shapes into this
flat in the back make some good cabs so i'm gonna head in and we'll take a closer look at some of
these beauties it really turned out i'm really excited well we made it back in and gotta say
this stuff turned out absolutely beautiful love the green love green just favorite color hands
down so beautiful so unique and then these pieces right here this big guy this turned out great
really looking forward to polishing this in the future it's gonna make a really cool display piece
these little ones we're gonna have a lot of fun like i said making cabochons and different things
really beautiful details and i gotta say the colors that came out on these so so beautiful
absolutely amazing i hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did
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i'm gonna post some pictures of some of these close-ups for the end thanks bye