The Atlas

Every stone, catalogued twice.

Browse by name. Each entry contains a mineral profile - formula, symmetry class, hardness, provenance - alongside the traditions and practices that have shaped how the stone is held.

344 of 344 entries

001

Actinolite

Green fibre - the composed nerve.

002

Aegirine

The dark blade - a stone of clean severance.

003

Afghanite

Lapis-country blue, gathered in miniature.

004

Agni Manitite

Pearl of the fire spirit.

005

Alexandrite

Emerald by day, ruby by lamplight.

006

Allophane

Blue milk of the volcano.

007

Alurgite

The rose leaf of the mica book.

008

Amber

Sunlight, kept.

009

Amber Calcite

Honey in stone form.

010

Amegreen

Two moods, one lattice.

011

Amethyst

The stone of tempered clarity.

012

Ammonite

A spiral written by an animal, kept by stone.

013

Amphibole Quartz

Wings caught in glass.

014

Anapaite

Green quiet of forgotten shorelines.

015

Angel Aura Quartz

A veil of coloured light on stone.

016

Anorthosite

The pale stone of ancient crusts.

017

Apache Tear

Grief made translucent.

018

Apatite

The mineral of teeth, bone, and clear speech.

019

Apple Aura Quartz

Green light bound to a clear point.

020

Aqua Aura Quartz

Quartz dressed in a film of sky.

021

Aragonite

Radiating warmth of the settled body.

022

Arizona Pietersite

Storm light held in stone.

023

Arsenopyrite

Bright metal with a warning in it.

024

Asphaltite

The slow stone that was once life.

025

Astrophyllite

Star-leaf sprung from dark rock.

026

Atlantisite

Green ground broken by lilac light.

027

Auralite-23

The old stone carrying two dozen names.

028

Aurichalcite

Feather-tufts the colour of morning sky.

029

Autunite

The green fire that must be watched from a distance.

030

Axinite

The wedge-crystal that turns the light.

031

Azurite

The pigment the old painters kept blue with.

032

Banded Agate

The stone that keeps a record of its own growing.

033

Banded Honey Calcite

Warm layers laid down in still water.

034

Barite

The heavy stone with weightless blades.

035

Bauxite

The red earth that becomes the light metal.

036

Black Amethyst

Purple gone deep enough to hold a shadow.

037

Black Banded Onyx

Clean parallel lines drawn through the dark.

038

Black Jade

The dense stone that will not be pushed.

039

Black Kyanite

The fan that sweeps a room clean.

040

Black Mica (Biotite)

Pages of dark rock that turn under a fingernail.

041

Black Moonstone

The moon on a new-moon night.

042

Black Obsidian

The mirror the earth cooled too fast to lose.

043

Black Onyx

The polished dark that steadies a hand.

044

Black Sardonyx

Warm and cold stone laid in one seam.

045

Black Shiva Lingam

River-shaped stone gathered by hand.

046

Black Spinel

Small hard stone that takes no colour but its own.

047

Black Star Diopside

A four-rayed star crossed on dark stone.

048

Black Tourmaline

The threshold stone.

049

Bladed Calcite

Paper-thin stone stacked like petals.

050

Blue Aragonite

Soft blue mineral grown in coral shape.

051

Blue Aventurine

The quiet blue quartz for a long-held plan.

052

Blue Barite

Weightless-looking crystals with real weight.

053

Blue Calcite

Soft chalk-blue mineral for a tired room.

054

Blue Chalcedony

Sea-glass mineral for a level voice.

055

Blue Chert

Sedimentary stone the sea pressed flat.

056

Blue Dolomite

Cool blue rock that softens a hard week.

057

Blue Flower Agate

Small chalcedony blooms held in still blue.

058

Blue Fluorite

Cubic stone for a mind that will not sit still.

059

Blue Halite

Salt cube coloured by long-buried light.

060

Blue Jay Sapphire

The old blue stone of vows and verdicts.

061

Blue John Fluorite

One hill in England, and nowhere else.

062

Blue Kyanite

Sapphire-blue blades that align a room.

063

Blue Lace Agate

A quiet blue voice for the throat.

064

Blue Onyx

The calm of layered water in stone.

065

Blue Scheelite

The mapmaker's stone.

066

Blue Smithsonite

Rounded blue drift from an old zinc mine.

067

Blue Tigers Eye (Hawk's Eye)

The steady blue gaze of the hawk.

068

Blue Topaz

Clear sky in a faceted stone.

069

Blueberry Fluorite

Small cubes of night.

070

Bolivianite (Ametrine)

One crystal holding two suns.

071

Botswana Agate

Fine grey lines for the long night.

072

Boulder Opal

Living colour anchored in stone.

073

Brecciated Agate

The broken stone made whole again.

074

Brochantite

Green copper sprays from the desert workings.

075

Bronzite

The polite refusal in stone.

076

Brown Dravite Tourmaline

The grounded end of the tourmaline family.

077

Bumblebee Jasper

Yellow, black and warning.

078

Cancrinite

A late yellow bloom in old plutons.

079

Candle Quartz (Pineapple)

A quartz point encrusted with its own light.

080

Caribbean Calcite

Warm blue water held as stone.

081

Carnelian

The old red stone of the working hand.

082

Carnotite

The yellow crust that lit the atomic age.

083

Cassiterite

The stone that made the Bronze Age.

084

Cavansite

Electric blue starburst from a monsoon quarry.

085

Chabazite

The quiet framework that filters the world.

086

Chalcanthite

The bright blue that must not touch water.

087

Chalcopyrite

Peacock ore — the stone of alchemists.

088

Champagne Aura Quartz

A treated quartz for warmth without weight.

089

Champagne Topaz

A warm topaz for measured celebration.

090

Charoite

The lilac swirl from a single Siberian mountain.

091

Cheetah Agate

A patterned chalcedony for patient watching.

092

Cherry Tanzurine

A deep red aventurine for warmth without noise.

093

Chevron Amethyst

V-banded amethyst for direction and dream.

094

Chiastolite

The cross stone of protection.

095

Chinese Writing Stone

A stone that reads like a page.

096

Chlorite Quartz

Green-veiled quartz for garden work.

097

Chlorophane

The fluorite that answers heat with light.

098

Chocolate Calcite

A warm brown calcite for grounded comfort.

099

Chrome Diopside

A verdant pyroxene lit from within by chromium.

100

Chrysanthemum Stone

A stone whose petals bloomed in stone.

101

Chrysoberyl

A golden gemstone of exceptional hardness and clarity.

102

Chrysocolla

The turquoise-blue voice of copper country.

103

Chrysoprase

The apple-green chalcedony of new leaf and new heart.

104

Cinnabar

The scarlet ore that painted an empire.

105

Citrine

Solar quartz - warmth held in stone.

106

Clear Quartz

The master lens - amplifier and archive.

107

Clevelandite

The white bladed feldspar of pegmatite cavities.

108

Cobaltoan Calcite

A vivid pink calcite tinted by cobalt.

109

Cobra Jasper

A stone patterned like scaled skin.

110

Collawood

Ancient wood re-cast in common opal.

111

Colombianite

A dark natural glass held sacred in the Andes.

112

Colourless Fluorite

The optical purity behind fluorite's whole family.

113

Colourless Topaz

The unpigmented base of every treated blue topaz.

114

Conichalcite

A vivid green copper arsenate of oxidised veins.

115

Copal

Amber's younger sibling, still fragrant.

116

Copper

A conductive metal of body, wire and ritual bowl.

117

Coquimbite

A lavender bloom from the Atacama.

118

Covellite

An indigo mirror shot with peacock fire.

119

Crackle Quartz

Clear quartz taught to hold light in fractures.

120

Crazy Lace Agate

The laughing agate of the Chihuahuan desert.

121

Crazy Lace Amethyst

A Patagonian amethyst laced with quartz and calcite.

122

Creedite

A radiant burst of orange desert crystals.

123

Crichtonite

A black alpine gem for oxide-rich clefts.

124

Crocoite

A radiant orange-red spray from Tasmanian mines.

125

Cryolite

The Greenlandic ice-stone once used to make aluminium.

126

Crystallised Orange Calcite

Warmth held in a rhombohedral cage.

127

Cuprite

A deep red copper ore that glows garnet in the light.

128

Cyanotrichite

A fibrous sky-blue tuft from the copper margins.

129

Dali Calcite

The banded marble that named a school of Chinese painting.

130

Dallasite

A green Pacific basalt healed with white quartz.

131

Dalmatian Jasper

A spotted felsic rock, misnamed a jasper.

132

Danburite

A clear boron gemstone of pale-lit clarity.

133

Datolite

A glassy borate of basalt cavities and copper country.

134

Dendritic Agate

A stone in which forests grow inside quartz.

135

Dendritic Opal

Fern-inked opal of quiet inner landscapes.

136

Desert Jasper

Madagascan silica painted in sunset weather.

137

Desert Rose

A flower crystallised from arid patience.

138

Diamond

Carbon reorganised by the deep mantle into pure fire.

139

Dianite Blue Jade

A Siberian pyroxene that only borrows jade's name.

140

Diopside

A pale-to-green pyroxene of contact metamorphism.

141

Dioptase

A copper silicate whose green rivals emerald itself.

142

Dogtooth Calcite

A cave stone shaped like a mouthful of teeth.

143

Dolomite

A soft carbonate of pale-pink saddle crystals.

144

Dragi Jade

A quiet green from the Balkans.

145

Dragon Stone

Green scales and red blood in one stone.

146

Dravite

The warm brown tourmaline of tolerant company.

147

Dumortierite

A stone of denim-blue focus and patient study.

148

Eclogite

Christmas-coloured rock from the deep crust.

149

Eilat Stone

King Solomon's stone from the Timna copper mines.

150

Elestial Quartz

A many-terminated quartz that grew and paused and grew again.

151

Elite Shungite

The silver-black carbon of Karelia.

152

Emerald

The green beryl of vows and rain-fed patience.

153

Emerald Calcite

A gentle green rhomb from Mexican deposits.

154

Enhydro Quartz

A quartz that kept a drop of its parent water.

155

Enstatite

A mantle pyroxene of ordinary, essential green.

156

Epididymite

A rare beryllium bloom from alkaline pegmatites.

157

Epidote

The pistachio-green stone of amplified intention.

158

Erionite

A woollen zeolite handled only behind glass.

159

Erythrite

The magenta warning-flag of buried cobalt.

160

Ethiopian Welo Opal

A honey-bodied opal that drinks and remembers water.

161

Euclase

A beryllium gem that splits at a breath.

162

Eudialyte

A raspberry stone from Arctic alkaline rock.

163

Faden Quartz

A crystal that broke and grew itself back together.

164

Fairy Quartz

A stalactite dressed in tiny pale crystals.

165

Fancy Jasper

A jasper that refuses one colour.

166

Fenster Quartz

A quartz that grew its edges before its faces.

167

Fire Agate

A chalcedony that catches fire on tilt.

168

Fire Opal

A stone that keeps sunset inside it.

169

Flower Agate

Chalcedony grown into small unopened blooms.

170

Flower Jasper

A quiet stone that grew its own bouquet.

171

Flower Obsidian

Volcanic glass that flowered while it froze.

172

Flower Rhyolite

An Australian volcanic that reads like moss and blossom.

173

Fluorapatite

The mineral that is also your teeth.

174

Fluorite

A crystal that comes in every colour and cleaves along octahedra.

175

Fossil Coral

A reef preserved in chalcedony flowers.

176

Fossil Shell Jasper

Chalcedony that swallowed a shoreline.

177

Fossilised Wood

A tree that became a stone without losing its rings.

178

Franklinite

A black spinel from the strangest orebody in America.

179

Fruit Jasper

Bands of orchard colour in a single silica pebble.

180

Fuchsite

A green mica that keeps chromium in its sheets.

181

Fuji Lava Stone

A porous piece of Japan's most patient volcano.

182

Fulgurite

A tube of glass a lightning bolt left in the sand.

183

Galaxyite

A dark matrix that shows the night sky in miniature.

184

Galena

The heaviest mineral most collectors ever hold.

185

Garden Quartz

A clear window onto a landscape that stopped growing.

186

Garnet

A red dodecahedron that grew inside a hot rock.

187

Garnet in Arfvedsonite

Red discipline set into a dark blue field.

188

Garnet in Biotite

Metamorphic proof that pressure produces jewels.

189

Garnet in Staurolite

Two crystal habits that only share a schist.

190

Garnet in Wollastonite

Contact-zone stone where limestone met granite.

191

Garnierite

An apple-green stone that grew where nickel weathered.

192

Gaspeite

A rare green carbonate from oxidised nickel ore.

193

Gem Silica

The rarest blue of the copper family, translucent at last.

194

Geyserite

The cream deposit a geyser leaves as it breathes.

195

Gibbsite

The pale mineral behind every aluminium object.

196

Girasol Quartz

A milky quartz that turns on a soft blue glow.

197

Glacier Quartz

A quartz point that looks like it was cut from a glacier.

198

Glauberite

An evaporite crystal that often dissolves and leaves its mould behind.

199

Glendonite

A star of calcite where a cold-water mineral once grew.

200

Goethite

The rust that made the ochres of the first painters.

201

Gold

A metal that will not tarnish and rarely lets go of itself.

202

Golden Barite

Heavy honey-coloured blades from ancient basins.

203

Golden Healer Quartz

A clear quartz wearing a film of iron sunlight.

204

Golden Sheen Obsidian

Black glass with a golden hush trapped inside it.

205

Goshenite

The clear window of the beryl family.

206

Grandidierite

One of the world's rarest gem-quality minerals.

207

Grape Agate

A cluster of tiny purple spheres, misnamed but unforgettable.

208

Green Apatite

The stone that lends its name to appetite.

209

Green Aragonite

The softer polymorph of calcium carbonate, tinted by copper.

210

Green Aventurine

Quartz that shimmers because tiny mica flakes lie the same way.

211

Green Dolomite

A pale-green carbonate that only exists because a sea existed.

212

Green Fluorite

Cubic clarity in the colour of new leaves.

213

Green Garnet

The garnet family's green branch — grassland instead of ember.

214

Green Hopeite

A rare pale-green mineral from oxidised zinc deposits.

215

Green Kyanite

Kyanite's rarer, teal-toned twin.

216

Green Onyx

A polished green surface that turns light into weight.

217

Green Opal

Opal without fire, coloured by nickel or celadonite instead.

218

Green Opalised Wood

A tree replaced, cell by cell, with green silica.

219

Green Sardonyx

Layered strength in green, white, and earth.

220

Green Smithsonite

A soft green zinc carbonate that holds a gentle lunar luster.

221

Green Tanzurine

Tanzanian aventurine — a green field of starlight.

222

Green Tourmaline

The heart of the tourmaline family — vivid, prismatic, and electrically alive.

223

Grenatite

A metamorphic rock where garnet has become the whole story.

224

Guinea Fowl Jasper

Madagascan jasper spotted like the bird that shares its name.

225

Guinea Fowl Quartz

Quartz that carries the spotted signature of the guinea fowl.

226

Gyrolite

White radial flowers of hydrated calcium silicate.

227

Helenite

Volcanic ash, reborn as glass.

228

Hematite

The iron blood of the Earth — heavy, grounding, and magnetic.

229

Hematite Coated Sandstone

Desert stone painted by iron.

230

Hematoid Quartz

Quartz that carries the fire of iron within its clarity.

231

Hemimorphite

Blue crust that grows where zinc meets water.

232

Herkimer Diamond

Water-clear quartz that grew with both ends free.

233

Heulandite

Pearly zeolite born in the pores of basalt.

234

Hilutite

Trade stone patterned like a weathered map.

235

Hollandite Quartz

Clear quartz sown with black star-bursts.

236

Honey Calcite

Warm-lit calcite the colour of poured amber.

237

Hutchinsonite

Rare thallium sulfosalt of crimson-black needles.

238

Hyacinth Jasper

Sun-warmed jasper the colour of hyacinth stone.

239

Hypersthene

Dark pyroxene that flashes bronze in the light.

240

Imperial Topaz

Golden-orange topaz once reserved for royalty.

241

Indonesia Palmwood

Fossil palm trunk turned to stone with its rods intact.

242

Iowaite

Pale sea-green hydroxide of the serpentinite margins.

243

Isua

One of Earth's oldest rocks, from the Greenland shield.

244

Jade

The stone of two minerals and a thousand years of ritual.

245

Japan Law Twin Quartz

Two quartz crystals meeting flat at 84 degrees.

246

Jaspillite

Red jasper and silver hematite in tectonic ribbons.

247

Kambaba Jasper

Fossil algal orbs preserved in dark green silica.

248

Kämmererite

Chromium-rich clinochlore in violet crystal fans.

249

Kinoite

Azure copper silicate of the Arizona skarns.

250

Kiwi Jasper

Pale stone flecked pink and black like a kiwi.

251

Kobyashevite

Pale copper sulfate sprays of the oxidised zone.

252

Kunzite

Pink spodumene named for the gem scholar who found it.

253

Labradorite

Aurora locked inside stone.

254

Lakelandite

Cumbrian volcanic tuff of the English Lake District.

255

Lapis Lazuli

The stone of starry midnight.

256

Larimar

The dolphin stone of the Caribbean.

257

Larvikite

Blue flash from ancient Norwegian stone.

258

Lattice Lace Agate

A net of white lace locked in silica.

259

Lazulite

Azure crystals of the phosphate family.

260

Lazurite

The blue heart of lapis lazuli.

261

Lemon Quartz

Citrus clarity in crystalline form.

262

Lemurian Seed Quartz

The striated keeper of quiet records.

263

Lepidolite

The lilac mica of calm transition.

264

Limonite

The ochre earth of patient transformation.

265

Lions Gate Quartz

Golden smoky quartz of solar courage.

266

Lizardite

The apple-green serpent of renewal.

267

Löllingite

Silvery iron arsenide of the sulfide veins.

268

Magma Chalcedony

Molten light held inside stone.

269

Magnesite

Porcelain-white stone of quiet mind.

270

Mahogany Obsidian

Grounded fire of the volcano's floor.

271

Malachite

The banded green mirror of transformation.

272

Malacolla

Sea and forest folded into one stone.

273

Maligano Jasper

A shattered map re-cemented by silica.

274

Mango Quartz

Warm-fruit glow of solar clarity.

275

Marcasite

Brassy cockscomb of quick clarity.

276

Mariposite

Apple-green shimmer of the golden hills.

277

Mexican Agate

Wild laced rhythm of the desert.

278

Miriam Calligraphy Stone

A page of script written by shells.

279

Moldavite

Green fire of a fallen star.

280

Mookaite

Ochre memory of an ancient inland sea.

281

Mordenite

Fine white breath of the lava cavity.

282

Morganite

The soft heart of the beryl family.

283

Moroccan Agate

Soft desert sky held in a section of stone.

284

Moss Agate

Chalcedony with a garden inside it.

285

Mugglestone

Iron, jasper and tiger's eye written in one stripe.

286

Muscovite

Silvery pages of the earth's lightest book.

287

Natrolite

Fine white needles of the volcanic cavity.

288

Nellite

A softly mottled cousin of pietersite.

289

Neptunite

Black prisms from the god of the sea.

290

Nevada Rose

A desert stone flowering in pink.

291

Nguni Jasper

The hide of the sacred herd, in stone.

292

Nontronite

Ochre clay of quiet transformation.

293

Noreena Jasper

Ochre-and-brick banding of the ancient outback.

294

Nundoorite

Deep-green rock of the outback night.

295

Nuummite

Iridescent fire of the oldest stones.

296

Ocean Jasper

Concentric orbs at the edge of the sea.

297

Ocean Picture Stone

A shoreline captured in soft blue bands.

298

Okenite

Cotton-soft blooms in a lava cavity.

299

Optical Calcite

The stone that shows two worlds at once.

300

Orange Aventurine

A warm spark of creative confidence.

301

Orange Calcite

Sunshine frozen in carbonate form.

302

Orange Kyanite

A blade of fire that cuts through hesitation.

303

Orange Selenite

A warm lantern of gentle release.

304

Orca Agate

Black-and-white bands that echo the ocean's diplomat.

305

Orchid Calcite

Soft floral layers for the heart's patience.

306

Orpiment

Golden fire with a poisonous edge.

307

Orthoceras

An ancient sailor preserved in black limestone.

308

Orthoclase

The feldspar that builds continents.

309

Pagoda Calcite

Tiered crystal towers of quiet geometry.

310

Paragonite

The quiet silver mica of high-pressure rocks.

311

Pargasite

A deep green prism from the roots of mountains.

312

Peach Moonstone

A soft glow of new beginnings.

313

Peanut Obsidian

Ancient fire holding its breath in stone.

314

Peridot

Sunlight caught in an olive leaf.

315

Petrified Ironwood

A forest turned to iron and time.

316

Petrified Wood

A tree's memory written in stone.

317

Phenakite

A deceiver of light, brilliant and clear.

318

Phoenix Stone

Flame and ash reborn as pattern.

319

Phosphosiderite

Orchid calm for the emotional body.

320

Picasso Jasper

Abstract earth art in black and rust.

321

Picture Jasper

Landscapes painted by silica and time.

322

Pietersite

A storm of gold and blue locked in stone.

323

Pink Amethyst

A geode of gentle, heart-opening light.

324

Pink Zebra Jasper

Stripes of rose and cream, patient as sediment.

325

Pinolith

Pale nodules scattered like pine nuts in dark rock.

326

Pistachio Calcite

Soft green carbonate, cool as a shaded stream.

327

Plum Blossom Jasper

Flowers held open in stone.

328

Plumbogummite

Botryoidal blue-green crust over old lead veins.

329

Prasiolite (Green Amethyst)

Amethyst that went green in the heat.

330

Prehnite

Botryoidal green light with epidote needles inside.

331

Preseli Bluestone

The stone that walked to Stonehenge.

332

Prophecy Stone

Angular desert iron, heavy in the hand.

333

Purple Aragonite

Carbonate blades in an unlikely violet.

334

Purple Aura Quartz

Quartz dressed in a violet metallic sheen.

335

Purple Chalcedony

Quiet violet botryoids of grape-like quartz.

336

Purple Fluorite

Cubes of violet glass grown in limestone veins.

337

Purple Jade

Lavender jadeite, the rarest of the jade colours.

338

Purple Opal

Common opal in shades of violet and lilac.

339

Purple Scapolite

A violet collector's gem with a soft inner glow.

340

Purple Selenite

Pale violet gypsum with a satin, watery light.

341

Purpurite

An electric violet crust born from weathered phosphate.

342

Pyrite

Fool's gold, cut into flawless brassy cubes.

343

Rose Quartz

The stone of unhurried tenderness.

344

Selenite

Moonlight, made structural.