#JASPER STONE BLUE WINDOWS#
In this bedroom decorator Heather Chadduck Hillegas covered this bedroom’s windows and baseboards in Sherwin-Williams Jasper Stone (SW 9133) to contrast walls painted in Alabaster (SW 7008). This paint color works well for the bedroom, you can use this serene blue green paint color as a trim instead of an overall paint color. Again we see this paint color combined with gold hardware and neutrals and a splash of color, this time in a vivid yellow as seen in the patterned wallpaper and bright yellow flowers. Great relaxing paint color perfect for a laundry room. Laundry Room Designer: Jill White Designs: Jasper Stone SW 9133 (218-C4). Sherwin Williams Jasper Stone paint color This is similar to an eggshell blue paint color with a hint of green. Neutral light grey is seen in the soft furnishings of the armchairs and curtains with a hint of color added to the velvety blush ottomans and pink details on the botanical themed throw pillows.Īlthough Jasper Stone is more of a blue green jasper color, in this room it throws off an overall light blue look. Accents in gold with the wall sconces and picture frames. Light blue color scheme that is refreshing in a traditional style. Living Room in Sherwin Williams Jasper Stone Blue Watery blue painted walls and ceiling for an all over color scheme. The best material has numerous, randomly spaced azurite stains on a bright white granite background.Sherwin Williams Jasper Stone offers a light blue green, watery paint color that is serene and tranquil and great for those who like neutrals but want to add a bit of color. This price is similar to what is paid for nice specimens of many popular agates and jaspers. Great material can be purchased for about $30 to $40 per pound. The rare combination of azurite in granite starts a lot of discussions, and even the occasional argument. K2 attracts a lot of attention at gem and mineral shows. K2 is therefore not a good stone for mounting in a ring or bracelet. The feldspar minerals in K2 have a hardness of about 6 on the Mohs scale and will be scratched or show signs of wear over time if subjected to abrasion or impact. This is likely because if you cut ten pounds of K2 into 1-centimeter beads, very few of them will display the blue azurite color. Cut beads are not seen in the marketplace. K2 shapes and polishes well in a rock tumbler to produce tumbled stones. This is because the azurite exists as a stain rather than as discrete mineral grains. Although azurite has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 to 4, the blue dots have the same cutting and polishing properties as the surrounding white granite.
Due to its high feldspar content, it can be easily cut with a lapidary saw and shapes quickly on a diamond wheel. K2 granite cuts, tumbles, and polishes beautifully. This cabochon is about 20 x 30 millimeters in size. These indicate that the stain formed after the granite solidified from its parent melt. Within each stain you can see the texture of the granite and grains of black biotite. K2 cabochon: An oval cabochon cut from K2 Granite with several bright blue azurite stains. The azurite is a secondary material that clearly formed after all of the other minerals in the granite had solidified from the parent melt. Some specimens show strong alignment of the biotite grains and could be called "granite gneiss."Įxamination of the azurite spheres with a good hand lens or microscope reveals that the azurite is present along mineral grain boundaries, within tiny fractures, and as a "dye" penetrating the feldspar grains. The white granite is very fine-grained and composed of quartz, sodium plagioclase, muscovite, and biotite. If you examine the rock with a magnifying glass, you will see cleavage faces of feldspar minerals and black flakes of biotite.
Upon closer examination, however, you will see that they are actually spherical in shape.Īlthough K2 Jasper is the most commonly used name for marketing this material, it is definitely not jasper. On a broken surface or on the surface of a slab, the blue orbs look like drops of bright blue ink that splashed onto the rock. The azurite orbs range from a few millimeters up to about two centimeters in diameter. It is a bright white granite that contains sharply contrasting orbs of bright blue azurite.
It is like an eye magnet for anyone who sees it for the first time. "K2 Granite," also known as "K2 Jasper" and "raindrop azurite," is an extremely interesting rock and lapidary material from the Skardu area of northern Pakistan.
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