What is the difference between agate stones and jasper stones? Agates and jaspers are both members of the Chalcedony stone family. Chalcedony (kal SED' nee) is any form of microcrystalline quartz, ...
Tree Agate - (Page)Tree Agate is a form of Dendritic Agate. Tree Agate is a chalcedony with dendrite inclusions of moss colored green minerals. Tree Agate is an unusual agate as it is usually opaque white and doesn' ...
Oregon Rocks and Minerals - (Page)Oregon is known for jaspers, agates, thundereggs, and petrified wood. Oregon's terrain varies from beaches to pine covered mountains to barren desert. Graveyard Point Plume, Priday, Stinkin ...
Cherry Creek Jasper - (Page)Cherry Creek Jasper is a colorful jasper found in Mainland China. It is also known as Red Creek Jasper or Picasso Jasper. It comes from the Cherry Creek Mine and there is a nearby creek named Re ...
Bible Stones - (Page)The Bible makes numerous references to stones: The first mention of stones in the Bible (Exodus 28:17-20) has to do with the stones in Aaron's breastplate. Aaron was Moses' brother and led the ...
Jaspers - (Page)Jasper is a member of the chalcedony family. Chalcedony (kal SED' nee) is any form of microcrystalline quartz, where the crystals are too small to be seen without high magnification. However, in the ...
Agates - (Page) Agates are members of the chalcedony family. Chalcedony (kal SED' nee) is any form of microcrystalline quartz, where the crystals are too small to be seen without high magnification. However, ...
Crazy Lace Agate - (Page)Crazy Lace Agate is a banded chalcedony (microcrystalline quartz) that is often infused with iron and aluminum. Creamy browns, blacks, grays and golds (and occasional reds and pinks) swirl togethe ...
Carnelian or Cornelian - (Page)Carnelian, also spelled Cornelian, is the only member of the translucent chalcedony family with its own name! Though it is actually Carnelian Agate, it is usually referred to as just Carnelian.&n ...
Kalahari Jasper - (Page)Kalahari Jasper is an interesting Picture Jasper with mostly brown swirls. It is found in the Kalahari Desert, in South Africa near the Namibia border. Kalahari means "the great thirst". The Kala ...
Fancy Jasper - (Page)Fancy Jasper is the colorful jasper found in Maharashtra, India. Jasper is an ornamental rock composed mostly of chalcedony, microcrystalline quartz, in association with other minerals, which giv ...
Polychrome Jasper - (Page)Polychrome Jasper is a type of chalcedony stone which develops in massive formations. The semi precious gemstone material was first found on the northwest coast of Madagascar in 2008, while searc ...