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Kambaba Jasper is also known as crocodile jasper and the name green stromatolite jasper is also occasionally used.  In our listings we always refer to this gemstone by the name kambaba jasper.

Stromatolites are colonial structures created by cyanobacteria which are more commonly blue-green algae. Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) are among the oldest fossils on earth and are found in rocks which are more than three billion years old.  Once the dominant life form on this planet, they are now almost completely extinct.  Stromatolites are found in only a few places worldwide one of which is Madagascar. It is believed that cyanobacteria were responsible for the creation of the earth's oxygen atmosphere.

Kambaba Jasper is a rare fossilized jasper which is found exclusively in Madagascar.  Jasper is a microcrystalline variety of the mineral quartz, a silicon dioxide mineral which measures 6.5 to 7 on Mohs scale of mineral hardness.

Jaspers can include up to 20% foreign materials which account for their wide variety of colours and patterns.

So kambaba jasper is basically a stromatolite jasper meaning it is composed of fossilized algae.

Kambaba jasper is both beautiful and rare and it has the richest of green colour sporadically broken up with black spherical orb like markings.

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