Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Picture Jasper

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

A speckled green-and-black stone resembling kiwi fruit, technically a quartz-amazonite aggregate rather than true 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 fossiliferous jasper packed with spiral snail shells, technically a silicified gastropod limestone from Wyoming.

A pale jasper threaded with black, fern-like mineral dendrites that mimic plants, trees, and frost despite being inorganic.

An opaque, iron-rich variety of microcrystalline quartz known for its deep brick-red color and ancient history as a stone of strength and grounding.

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

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

A dark green jasper-chalcedony speckled with red iron-oxide spots, classically known as bloodstone or heliotrope.

A hard, fine-grained siliceous rock with a dull porcelain-like texture, intermediate between soft diatomite and dense chert.

A brecciated, chatoyant quartz with swirling blue, gold, and brown fibers that shimmer like a stormy sky.

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

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

A rounded sedimentary nodule cracked internally and filled with veins of yellow calcite, prized for its striking dragon-skin patterning.

A rare Australian jasper from the Pilbara with bold red, yellow, and black abstract patterns, prized by collectors.