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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 85 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLOODSTONE , the popular name of the See also:

mineral See also:heliotrope, which is a variety of dark See also:green See also:chalcedony or plasma, with See also:bright red spots, splashes and streaks. The green See also:colour is due to a chloritic mineral; the red to See also:haematite. Some coarse kinds are opaque, resembling in this respect See also:jasper, and some writers have sought to restrict the name "bloodstone" to green jasper, with red markings, thus making heliotrope a translucent and bloodstone an opaque See also:stone, but, though convenient, such a distinction is not generally recognized. A See also:good See also:deal of bloodstone comes from See also:India, where it occurs in the See also:Deccan traps, and is cut and polished at See also:Cambay. The stone is used for See also:seals, See also:knife-handles and various trivial ornaments. Bloodstone is not very widely distributed, but is found in the basaltic rocks of the Isle of See also:Rum in the See also:west of See also:Scotland, and in a few other localities.

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