Rock & Mineral Encyclopedia

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

White Garnet

The rare colorless-to-white grossular garnet, also called leuco garnet, prized by collectors for its purity and unusual lack of color.

One of the two jade minerals, an amphibole prized for its extreme toughness and soft, waxy green hues used in carving for millennia.

A water-bearing massive grossular garnet, usually green or pink, widely used as a tough jade-like carving stone.

A soft, fine-grained, translucent form of gypsum (or banded calcite) long prized as a carving and ornamental stone.

A rich green, fuchsite-rich metamorphic rock from southern Africa, prized as a carving and ornamental stone.

The blue-green gem variety of microcline feldspar, often mottled with white, prized as an affordable ornamental stone.

A bold black-and-white banded chalcedony named for its orca-like coloring, popular as carvings and statement jewelry.