Red Jasper Heart Pendant

Heart tumbled stone pendant made of red jasper.

jasper
Jasper is a microcrystalline variant of quartz and gets its red color from inclusions of iron.
Jasper has been highly valued as a gemstone since ancient times and remains one of the most popular gemstones in the world today.

Tumbled stones
Tumbled stones are stones that have been ground and polished in a tumbler.
For this purpose, the raw stones are tumbled with abrasives in a drum for several weeks, during which the sharp corners and edges are ground off.
Increasingly finer grains of abrasive are used, from very coarse to very fine, so that the stones acquire a smooth and shiny surface over time.
Finally, the stones are polished in the drum with special polishing powder to achieve a mirror shine.