Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

Citrine

The golden-yellow variety of quartz, ranging from pale lemon to deep madeira amber, often produced by heating amethyst.

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

A natural bicolor quartz that combines purple amethyst and golden citrine in a single crystal.

A vivid greenish-yellow quartz, usually heat-treated or irradiated, prized for its clean clarity and bright lemon color.

A pale green variety of quartz, usually created by heat-treating amethyst, often marketed as green amethyst.

The yellow variety of beryl, also called heliodor or golden beryl, colored by iron and valued for its bright color and durability.

A cheerful yellow opal ranging from translucent common opal to golden fire opal, colored by trace iron in the silica.

A soft, sky-blue strontium sulfate mineral famous for the glittering pale-blue crystal geodes from Madagascar.

The rare calcium-chromium garnet, famous for its sparkling emerald-green druzy crusts of tiny crystals, the only consistently green garnet.

A nickel sulfide famous for delicate brass-yellow hairlike crystals that form radiating sprays inside cavities and geodes.

A nodular rhyolite geode-like ball whose plain exterior hides a star-shaped agate or chalcedony core when cut.

A gray-toned jasper with swirling cream, black, and brown leaf-like patterns, sometimes with druzy or agate pockets.

A South African quartz whose central crystal is coated in tiny druzy points, also called cactus or fairy quartz.

Coarse, clear-to-white crystalline calcite that cements limestones, contrasting with fine muddy micrite.