Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Pink Beryl

The pink to peach variety of beryl, better known as morganite, colored by manganese and prized for its gentle pastel hues.

The colorless variety of beryl, named after Goshen, Massachusetts, prized for its purity, clarity, and durability.

A trade term for orange garnets, mainly manganese-rich spessartine and the brownish hessonite variety of grossular.

The golden-yellow gem variety of beryl, colored by iron, prized for its bright sunshine hue and excellent durability.

The blue iron-bearing variety of beryl, forming clear hexagonal crystals prized both as specimens and as a March birthstone gem.

A rare sky-blue variety of pectolite found only in the Dominican Republic, prized for its sea-like color and white volcanic patterning.

The red to raspberry-pink variety of tourmaline, prized for its vivid ruby-like color that holds under both daylight and artificial light.

A variety of pyroxenite composed of both orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene with little olivine, found in layered intrusions and the mantle.

Tourmaline crystals displaying two or more distinct colors at once, including the famous pink-and-green watermelon variety.

A transparent, optical-grade variety of calcite famous for strong double refraction, splitting images and light into two rays.

The soft pink, usually cloudy variety of quartz colored by trace titanium or microscopic inclusions, popular for carvings and beads.

An exceptionally hard beryllium aluminum oxide prized for golden hues, sharp cat's-eye effect, and the rare color-change alexandrite variety.