The Encyclopedia of Founding

Twelve hundred entries from the golden age of cast metal — how bells are founded, why brass is not bronze, what a cupola melts and a core withstands — by Simpson Bolland, the trade's great teacher.

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Jasper

Like carnelian, agate, and chalcedony, this mineral is chiefly composed of silex, but it always contains more iron, and hence, instead of being translucent, like them, it is always opaque. Its colors are red, yellow, and brown; specific gravity 2.70. Its composition is silex 75, alumina 0.5, lime 0.02, iron 13. It is infusible. See PRECIOUS STONES.

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