Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Smithsonite

Smithsonite is a zinc carbonate ore famous for glassy botryoidal crusts in blue-green, pink, and yellow hues.

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

A group of silicate gemstones best known for deep red but spanning nearly every color, including green tsavorite and orange spessartine.

A vivid yellow-and-black banded stone from Indonesian volcanic vents, colored by sulfur, arsenic minerals and iron oxides, not true jasper.

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.