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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...

Snakeskin Jasper is a semiprecious gemstone material from Australia.  It is found in Turee Creek Station in the Phibara region of western Australia. It is red, orangey red and white...

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...

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 was...

Crazy Lace Agate is a banded chalcedony that is infused with iron and aluminum. Chalcedony is a microcrystalline quartz. Creamy browns, blacks, grays and golds (and occasional reds and pinks) swirl...

Noreena Jasper is a semiprecious stone material that comes from Pilbara region of Western Australia. The area is some 700 miles north of the capital, Perth. Noreena Jasper was named after Noreena...

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

What is the difference between agates and jaspers? Agates and jaspers are both members of the Chalcedony stone family. Chalcedony (kal SED' nee) is any form of microcrystalline quartz, where the...

Moonstone is a member of the Feldspar mineral group, containing the feldspar species albite and orthoclase.  It is named for its blue-white

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...