Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Yellow Jasper

An opaque yellow-to-golden variety of jasper, an iron-stained microcrystalline quartz prized for warm color and durable polish.

A hollow rock nodule whose interior cavity is lined with inward-pointing crystals such as quartz, amethyst, or calcite.

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

A prized Mexican jasper known for pastel green, lavender, and cream orbicular patterns that take an exceptional polish.

An orbicular jasper with red and orange flower-like spots resembling poppies, famously from Morgan Hill, California.

A warm earth-toned jasper from Madagascar in flowing reds, oranges and golds, also called desert jasper, discovered in the early 2000s.

A black volcanic glass threaded with delicate grey, swirling lace-like bands of flow lines that show beautifully when polished.