Entry № 295
Noreena Jasper
Ferruginous silicified sandstone
Ochre-and-brick banding of the ancient outback.
Chakra
Root · Solar Plexus
Element
Earth · Fire
Zodiac
Aries · Capricorn

I. The Metaphysical Reading
How the stone has been held.
Noreena jasper is held as a stone of grounded creativity and steady confidence. Its warm banding is said to help artists and makers stay with a project through its unglamorous middle rather than abandoning it for the next idea.
- Chakra
- Root · Solar Plexus
- Element
- Earth · Fire
- Zodiac
- Aries · Capricorn
- Keynote
- Ochre-and-brick banding of the ancient outback.
II. The Scientific Reading
What the lattice actually does.
Noreena jasper is a highly silicified iron-rich sedimentary rock from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its intense red, yellow and ochre bands come from iron oxides and hydroxides infiltrating a silica-cemented sandstone precursor.
- Formula
- SiO₂ + Fe oxides
- System
- Trigonal (microcrystalline)
- Hardness
- 6.5 – 7 (Mohs)
- Provenance
- Australia (Western Australia — Pilbara)
References & Sources
Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.
Mineral Profile
Fact Sheet
- Chemical Formula
- SiO₂ + Fe oxides
- Crystal System
- Trigonal (microcrystalline)
- Mohs Hardness
- 6.5 – 7 (Mohs)
- Density
- 2.60 – 2.70 g/cm³
- Refractive Index
- 1.530 – 1.540
- Provenance
- Australia (Western Australia — Pilbara)
- Color Origin
- Brick red, mustard yellow and ochre bands from Fe
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
Next in the Atlas
Nundoorite
Deep-green rock of the outback night.




