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There is mining for rocks in Australia in all states and territories. The geology of Australia includes almost all known rock types and from all geological time periods spanning over 3.8 billion y ...

Tiger Iron consists of Red Jasper, Hematite, and Tiger eye. It is a great example of a metamorphosed gemstone: More than 2 billion years ago, deposits of these three materials were slowly mashed t ...

Rhodonite is pink semiprecious stone, that is a metamorphic manganese metasilicate with a hardness of 5.5 to 6.5. The black dendritic inclusions are manganese oxide. It may also have white inclus ...

Mookaite Jasper is a warm, earthy flood of reds, yellows and browns. It is formed as a sedimentary stone in erosion zones and as a filler in cracks. Mookaite Jasper is named for where is wa ...

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 ...

Snakeskin Jasper is a semi precious gemstone material from Turee Creek Station in the Phibara region of western Australia.  It is red, orangey red and white banded and is named for the ...

Noreena Jasper is a semi precious stone material that comes from Pilbara region of Western Australia, some 700 miles north of the capital, Perth. Noreena Jasper was named after Noreena Station wh ...

Tiger eye or Tiger's Eye is a member of the macro-crystalline quartz family, usually with rich yellow and brown stripes. Occasionally Tiger's Eye can be found blue or red, but most of the tim ...

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, ...

Moonstone is a member of the Feldspar mineral group, containing the feldspar species albite and orthoclase.  It is named for its blue-white sheen which is caused by lamellar structure (alter ...

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 ...

Petrified Wood is also known as fossilized wood. The name Petrified Wood comes from the Greek root petro meaning "rock" or "stone", so stone wood or wood turned into stone. It is technically a ps ...