Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Woodbine Jasper

An earthy-toned jasper with vine-like or scenic patterning, valued by lapidaries for warm browns, reds, and creams that polish to a smooth finish.

A warm-toned jasper named for its autumn-leaf palette of browns, rust, gold, and cream, popular as soothing earth-tone beads.

An opaque jasper from the Cave Creek area of Arizona, prized for earthy mottled and banded patterns in warm desert tones.

A rare Indonesian jasper from Sulawesi known for ghostly tube structures, brecciated patterns, and contrasting grey, red, and purple zones.

A black-and-white striped chalcedony-quartz rock whose bold zebra-like banding makes it a popular ornamental and lapidary stone.

A speckled green-and-black stone resembling kiwi fruit, technically a quartz-amazonite aggregate rather than true jasper.

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

A fossiliferous jasper packed with spiral snail shells, technically a silicified gastropod limestone from Wyoming.

Quartz containing a sealed pocket of ancient water, often with a mobile air bubble that moves when the crystal is tilted.

A common opal containing moss- or fern-like mineral inclusions that resemble plants suspended in a pale silica body.

Ancient wood whose organic tissue has been replaced by silica, preserving the grain, rings, and structure of the original tree in stone.

An opaque brown chalcedony whose iron-stained banding mimics deserts, dunes, and distant mountain skylines.

A patterned jasper whose bands and inclusions create miniature landscapes of deserts, mountains, and skies within the stone.

An African picture jasper from the Kalahari region with warm desert-toned banding evoking dunes and savanna.

A banded jasper with cream, tan, and brown layers resembling snakeskin, often sourced from Madagascar.