Rose Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese
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Browse organic gemstone (not a rock or mineral in the traditional sense, but bio mineralized material) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Rose Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese
Picture Jasper
SiO2
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily composed of SiO2)
Flint (or Chert)
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO2)
Fossilized bone or tooth fragment in rock matrix
Indeterminate vertebrate fossil; mineralized apatite (carbonate-fluorapatite) with silica/carbonate-rich matrix
Black Jasper
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with impurities
Polished brecciated jasper
Jasper, an opaque microcrystalline variety of chalcedony (SiO₂), with iron-oxide staining
Weathered volcanic rock, likely andesite or basalt
Fine-grained mafic to intermediate volcanic rock; likely basaltic andesite/andesite, composition dominated by plagioclase with pyroxene and/or olivine
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Amber
Succinite (fossilized resin)
Black Onyx and Mother of Pearl
Cryptocrystalline Quartz (SiO2) and Nacre (Calcium Carbonate)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class)
Zebra Rock / Zebra Marble
Banded Limestone-Marble Transition
Iron-rich breccia or gossan rock
Goethite–hematite–limonite aggregate, possibly with chalcopyrite/malachite staining
Tumbled bloodstone (heliotrope), probable
Chalcedony (microcrystalline quartz, SiO₂) with iron-oxide inclusions
Yellow Sapphire
Corundum (Al2O3)
Bloodstone (Heliotrope)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with inclusions of Iron Oxide or Chlorite
Blue glass-like bead or gemstone keychain ornament
Indeterminate; likely cobalt-blue glass or synthetic blue spinel, not identifiable as a natural mineral from the image
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Brown translucent mineral fragment, possibly iron-stained quartz or amber
Uncertain; likely quartz (SiO₂) with iron-oxide staining, though amber (fossilized resin) is possible
Chert (Jasper/Mudstone variety with Oxidation)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (Permineralized wood)
Rough Quartz (or Quartzite pebble)
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO₂ / Silicon Dioxide)
Opalite
Man-made glass (traditionally simulated Opal)
Lepidodendron Fossil (Scale Tree)
Lepidodendron
Chert (Holey Stone)
Microcrystalline Quartz (SiO2)
Tumbled amber
Amber (fossilized plant resin), commonly succinite; organic mineraloid
Chert (and its variety Flint)
Silicon dioxide (SiO2) / Microcrystalline quartz
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (principally SiO2)
Petrified Wood / Fossilized Wood
Silicified Wood (Silicon Dioxide - SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Graphite-rich metamorphic rock (graphitic schist)
Graphitic schist; chiefly graphite (C), quartz (SiO₂), and mica minerals
Milky Quartz
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
Asphalt aggregate
Human-made bituminous asphalt containing crushed silicate rock aggregate
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (primarily quartz, SiO2)
Tumbled amethyst
Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO₂), purple variety colored mainly by iron impurities and irradiation
Yellow Jasper
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with Iron Oxide inclusions
Orbicular granite (likely Rapakivi-type granite)
Granite, chiefly quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, and biotite/hornblende
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Weathered vuggy quartz-rich rock (probable silicified limestone or quartz breccia)
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂) with calcite (CaCO₃), iron oxides, and minor clay minerals
Sandstone Pebble (River Rock)
Sandstone (Quartz-rich sedimentary rock with iron oxide staining)