Did you know that nature has the ability to produce natural magnets? One of the minerals that has magnetic properties and attracts iron and fragments of ordinary inert magnetite is...

Variscite is a hydrated aluminum phosphate mineral that grows in masses and crusts. It's often a secondary mineral found in deposits where waters with phosphate content interact with aluminum-based minerals....

Found in the Navajo Desert in the USA, Moqui marbles are choco-coloured rocks consisting of a sandstone core and a hematite shell (an oxide form of iron). Most Moqui marbles...

Vesuvianite (also called idocrase) is a rare silicate mineral and a staple material in craft and jewelry making. It makes for a good stone for autumn jewelry, with its soft...

Andalusite is a rock-forming mineral found in gneisses, schists, and hornfels. It's an aluminosilicate mineral that is produced in low to medium metamorphic pressures and temperatures. This mineral is also...

In this What on Earth feature, we put the spotlight on the most common variety of the mica group of silicate minerals: muscovite. The Physical Properties of Muscovite Muscovite comes...

A highly regarded gem material, sugilite is a rare mineral made of sodium, potassium, and lithium. Trace amounts of manganese give sugilite its vivid pink to grape purple colour. Although...

Petrified wood exquisitely shows what time and nature can do when combined. It's a natural wood that had transformed into stone after thousands or millions of years of permineralization. But...

Shattuckite is adored by many for its rich blues, dark blues, and greens. At times, this copper mineral occurs underneath the surface layer of quartz crystals. This produces the vivid...

Are you looking for a crystal that will make you feel a rush of calming energy when you pick it up? Then Stilbite is the crystal for you! With its...

A silicon dioxide, leopardskin jasper is a type of orbicular or banded jasper that displays red, pink, brown, cream, with colorful inclusions of tan, pink, red, black, gray, and brown...

Picture jasper is a beautiful stone that helps you get attuned to the earth's consciousness. Its picture-like patterns are believed to store vast records of the world's history and the...