Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Cherry Creek Jasper

A landscape-patterned Chinese jasper prized for warm cherry-red, cream, and green bands resembling painted scenery.

A prized Idaho jasper known for porcelain-smooth pastel pinks, creams, and greens in soft swirling, orbicular patterns.

A dark jasper trade stone speckled with pale flecks resembling a starry night sky, valued for its cosmic appearance.

A cream-colored feldspar-and-quartz rock peppered with dark spots, named for its resemblance to a Dalmatian dog.

A dark green chalcedony speckled with blood-red spots of iron oxide, traditionally known as heliotrope.

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

A brown fossiliferous chalcedony packed with spiral freshwater snail shells, technically agatized fossil rock from Wyoming.

An altered granite mottled pink and green from feldspar and epidote, popular as a tough, colorful ornamental rock.

An agate whose layered, segmented banding resembles the jointed stalks and leaves of bamboo.

A banded combination rock of golden tiger's eye, red jasper, and metallic hematite, formed in ancient iron deposits.