Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

Search and identify 1,000+ rocks, minerals, crystals, and gemstones — with properties, formation, colors, hardness, and how to tell them apart.

Ocean Jasper

A multicolored orbicular chalcedony from Madagascar famous for its circular eye-like orbs in greens, pinks, whites, and yellows.

A chalcedony agate with red, orange, and yellow plume or banding patterns that rise like dancing flames within the stone.

A fiery jasper whose red, orange, and yellow plumes lick across the stone like flames against an earthy background.

A vivid Australian jasper-like silica stone in earthy reds, yellows, and purples, formed from silicified radiolarian sediment.

A vivid green chromium-bearing diopside, an affordable emerald-like gem mined largely in Siberia.

An Australian green rhyolite with eye-like orbs and earthy patterns marketed as jasper, evoking dense rainforest foliage.

A precious opal showing dominant peacock-like blue, green and teal play-of-color, often on Ethiopian material.

A water-bearing massive grossular garnet, usually green or pink, widely used as a tough jade-like carving stone.

A white chalcedony filled with green or black dendritic, tree-like mineral inclusions that resemble ferns or moss frozen in stone.

A sought-after elbaite tourmaline in teal hues that blend blue and green, prized for its ocean-like color.

A mottled green jasper whose blotchy spotting resembles frog skin, valued by lapidaries for its earthy, camouflage-like patterns.

An intensely green tourmaline colored by chromium and vanadium, prized for its vivid emerald-like color from East Africa.

A green-and-black mottled jasper whose scale-like patterning resembles reptile skin, often linked to Kambaba and crocodile jaspers.