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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 451247, member: 5833&quot;]&#039;Jasper&#039; is a really nebulous term, a catchall for microcrystaline quartz that is opaque &amp; is either solid color or with inclusions that did not form in an orderly way, the way the layers in banded agate do.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is indisputably red jasper:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/hb/hb_2003.431.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once it starts to be less pure, with inclusions of other colors, what it gets called is sort of up for grabs.&nbsp; Sometimes jaspers take their name from the location where they are found.</p><p><br /></p><p>The maker of your beads may have been inspired by the look of red jasper with inclusions of other colors, but I can see in the magnified spot that the inclusions look like they spread out after being dropped in as a liquid, not the way rock grows.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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