Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Chrome Pyrope

A chromium-rich pyrope garnet whose intense blood-red color comes from chromium, often mined from ant hills and kimberlite weathering.

A rare breccia formed by meteorite impact, containing shocked rock fragments and glassy melt blobs welded together.

A limestone packed with visible shells and shell fragments, recording the accumulation of marine invertebrate remains on ancient sea floors.

A jasper made of angular fragments naturally cemented back together, typically showing red and brown pieces in a quartz matrix.

A cohesive fault rock formed by brittle crushing and grinding of rock along a fault zone, with angular fragments in a fine matrix.

A pegmatitic granite in which quartz and feldspar intergrow to resemble ancient runic or Hebrew script.