Location – India
Jasper is commonly found in the regions of North Africa, Sicily, France, India, Venezuela and Germany, USA etc. Jasper is a dark green, semi-translucent to opaque form of semiprecious chalcedony. It derives its name from the Greek iaspis. It owes its color to admixed hematite, but when it occurs with clay admixed, the color is a yellowish white or gray, or with goethite, a brown or yellow. Jasper is opaque, fine-grained or dense variety of the silica mineral chert.

Jasper is considered a power stone and a protection stone. Jasper gives one the courage to speak out and have personal independence. It was used for many different medications, like grinding into a powder to treat gall bladder and kidney disease. Jasper has been use to relieve pain, especially in childbirth.