The brown balls of snakeskin jasper with the dark brown grain have a diameter of 10mm; the entire strand of jasper is 40cm long.
Origin of raw material: India
Snake Jasper is also called Elephant Jasper, Snake Stone, Fossil Jasper or Golden Lace Jasper/Jasper.
Mineralogically, Snake Jasper is a silicified clay rock. The contained tiny fossils (so called foraminifera) cause the interesting patterns and structures of the mineral. Colors are mainly aluminum silicates (dark brown), iron hydroxide (light yellow-brown) and partly manganese oxides (black).