Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Cloud Agate

A chalcedony agate with soft, billowing cloud-like masses of gray and white suspended in a translucent body.

A warm golden to amber translucent chalcedony agate whose color and glow resemble honey, sometimes with banding.

A chalcedony agate with red, orange, and yellow plume or banding patterns that rise like dancing flames within the stone.

A warmly colored chalcedony agate with reds, oranges, golds, and pinks that blend like the glowing bands of a sunset sky.

A rare agate that forms naturally with flat polygonal faces and angular geometric shapes rather than the usual rounded nodule.

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

A collectible Oregon plume and scenic agate with feathery red and gold inclusions suspended in translucent chalcedony.

A translucent agate whose mineral inclusions resemble miniature landscapes of trees, hills, and horizons within the stone.

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

Obsidian in gray tones, often semi-translucent, colored by light scattering and minor inclusions within the volcanic glass.

A deep, rich forest-green elbaite tourmaline (verdelite) colored mainly by iron, with strong pleochroism and excellent durability.

A pink, manganese-rich variety of zoisite used as an ornamental gemstone, often mottled with white quartz and grey matrix.