The following is a list of Tektite gems and minerals listed in our database. Click the pictures to get full data, click the X to remove the gem from the list.
Moldavite: No, despite its name, Moldavite isn't some fancy green mold growing in a cave! Moldavite is a forest-green tektite formed by a meteorite impact around 15 million years ago in present-day Germany. Found primarily in the Czech Republic's Moldau River valley. Known for its distinctive bottle-green color and wrinkled, sculpted appearance. Popular in jewelry and among metaphysical collectors. Due to it (read full)
Tektites: Tektites are glass specimens rich in silica that many believed were actually meteorites. But, the locations in which tektites have been found, and their chemistry, led scientists to suggest that they may not in fact have come from outside planet Earth. Another conjecture is that tektites are formed from rocks that melted after being hit by a meteorite. Tektites actually have a composition not unl (read full)
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Of all minerals, calcite is by far the richest in forms. It appears as rhombohedral, scalenohedral, or prismatic crystals, often interg
Alexandrite is one of the more rare varieties of color changing chrysoberyl that changes color depending on the type of light that hits
Pyrite is an iron sulphide mineral with a cubic crystal system and is dimorphous with marcasite.
It occurs as cubic crystals with stri
Sinhalite is a magnesium aluminum borate, and is most commonly found as transparent honey-yellow to brown grains or pebbles with an ort