Ok guys, here we go this is going to be a long one. I have built up quite the selection of minerals and want to help others to id there own. I see alot of questions on here about it so here it is. My collection... also obviously there are alot of other minerals and crystals out there than these this is just my own collection.

Agate

- strength, courage, longevity, gardening, love, healing, protection

Identified by its multi and sometimes jagged or wavy layers

Agatized coral

Strength, healing

Identified by its softly textured and matte inside, and coral texture of the outside

Amazonite

-gambling success

A slighty darker sade of aquamarine, but not as dark as apatite but a similar texture and pattern to both

Amethyst

dreams, healing, psychism, peace, love, protection against thieves, courage,  happiness

Extremely common and popular, and easily identified as a dark vibrand to dull light purple quartz

Apache tear

-protection, luck

Identified as a dark black stone but is slightly transparent

Apatite

- protection, peace

A dark turquoise or teal like shade that has a slight sprakaly ness

Apophyllite.

- calm, happiness

Identified by is 4 sided "columns" rather than a hexagonal form like that of a typical quarts crystal

Aquamarine

- purification, psychism, balance, peace

Identified by its light color aqua color and texture

Aragonite.

-clam, energy, peace

Identified by its brick red like color, and hexagonal columns with no point.

Aventurine

- mental powers, eyesight, gambling success, money, peace, healing, luck

Identified by its evenly green but small speckels

Azurite

-psychism, dreams divination, healing

Identified by its green a blue both bright and vibrant

Bloodstone

-healing, victory, courage, wealth, strength, power, legal matters, business, invisibility, agriculture organization

Identified by its dark green color amd often small red spots

Bornite.  ( possibly chalcopyrite )

- happiness ,creativity,  clarity, healing

Identified by its blues, and purple colors. Bornite naturally tarnishing to colorful shades is oftem copied by treating chalcopyrite with and acid to become bright amd colorful.

Calcite

-spirituality, centering, peace, love, healing , purification, money, protection, energy

Comes in a variety of colors but is most easily identified by its shiny but roughly textured surface, almost like a wax coating.

Carnelian

- protection, peace, eloquence, healing, courage, sexual energy

Identified by its orange white and cream shades

Celestite

-commission, eloquence, healing

Identified by its light blue crystal like transparency

Chalcedony

- peace, anti-nightmare, travel, protection, lactation, luck

Identified by its silky texture, and almost glowing color

Citrine

-anti-nightmare, protection, psychism

Often copied by heat treating amethyst. the picture below shows the heat treated version, but true citrine is a lighter yellow

Coral

-healing, regulating menstruation, agriculture, protection, peace, wisdom

Identified by its red plant likeness

Desert rose

- strength, protection, purification

Part of the selenite family, but looks like no other mineral

Emerald

- love, money, mental powers, psychism, protection, exorcism, eyesight

Identified by its green black white colors often with specks of a silveryness

Fluorite

-mental powers

Like agate its paterns can be jagged but ranged in the pale and vibrant greens, and pale and vibrant purples

Fossils

- emental power, past life regression, protection, longevity

Often having shapes of shels, animals, or plants

Garnet.

- healing, protection, strength

Usually a deep dark reddish brown (i dont have a typical or good specimens)

Hematite

-healing grounding, divination

Identified by its grey reflective surface

Howlite

- wisdom, calm, spiritual, psychcism,

Oftem dyed blue to off as turquoise but is naturally white

Jade

- love, healing, longevity, wisdom, protection, gardening, prosperity, money

Ranging in light transparent shade, or bright and solid shades of green

Jasper

- healing, protection, health, beauty

There is a variety or colors and shades for jasper to be in... good luck haha

Jet

- protection, anti-nightmare, luck, divination, health

Has a shinyness like hematite but is black, and is lighter in weight

Kyanite.

- dreams

Identified by its many columns in an explosion formation, also found often in a blue shade

Labradorite

- love, balance, purification, strength, intuition

Identified by its flash of light reflected at certain angles

Lapis lazuli

healing, joy, love, fidelity, psychism, protection, courage

Often mistaked for sodalite, but tends for be a brighter blue than sodalite and often has goldish flakes

Lepidolite

-peace, spirituality, luck, protection, anti-nightmare, psychism, love

I dulish pink color with white splotches, and in its raw form is in sheets because it is is the miva group like selenite

Malachite

-power, protection, love, peace, business, success

A swirly green stone that is slightly smelly. Is green due to the high concentrations of copper tarnishing

Mookaite.

- clarity

Identified by its range of burgundy, red orange, cream, brown, and gray colors but can look quite different from one another

Obsidian

- protection, grounding, divination, peace

A natural glass is dark black and solid, is more easily identified when broken, because the you can see it is glass like.

Obsidian snowflake

- breaks bad habits, purity, balance

Similarly to black obsidian but with little off white flakes

Onyx

-protection, defensive, magic, reducing sexual desires

Similarly to obsidian in look but often has the slightest swirls of lighter shades of black, or other minerals in its factors. Often also has chips in it

Opal

- astral projection, psychism, beauty, money, luck, power

Again i dont have a great specimen but good quality opal has a range of ultra reflective sparkly flakes in it

petrified wood

-longevity, past-life regression, healing, protection

Looks like wood but is made of stone....

Prehnite.

- grounding, visualization ,elemental power

I have a piece of prehnite with shards of epidote but normaly is is a light transparent green with a slight blueish shade

Pyrite.

- creativity, grounding

Often called fools gold is easy to see why and identify. Its natural structure is in a cube formation, but has been foind in a flat dish when the sediment above was heavyer amd made it easier forit to form flat

Quartz crystal.

- protection, healing, psychcism, power, lactation

Easily identified by its hexagonal structures

Quartz rose.

- love, comion,  forgiveness, attraction, creativity,

Also a popular, its light pink and similar to quartz crystal

Quarts smokey.

- grounding, stabilizing, protection

Again quite similar to quartz crystal but often a light grey to black color

Rhodonite

- peace, anti-confusion

Identified by its pink and black splotches

Ruby

- wealth, protection, power, joy, anti-nightmare

In gem quality and form its a vibrant red but can be a less expensive lower quality stone (like emerald) with a dark pink hue, and slightly textured matte appearance.

Selenite

- reconciliation, energy

Also layered in sheets and in the mica family, can apear to be glowing amd pure white. Do not put any mica in water

Serpentine

- protection, lactation

A lovely green shade often more sold, and has some speckled paterns to it

Shiva lingam.

- purification

Often carved into and oval shape with shades of darker cream, and redish browns

Sodalite

- healing, peace, meditation, wisdom

Again often mistaken for lapis lazuli but often has shaded of white black creams and peaches

Sulfur

- protection, healing

My pride and joy, is easily identified by its bright yellow color

Sunstone

- protection, energy, health, sexual energy

Colors of cream white and a peachy orange

Tigers eye

- money, protection, courage, energy, luck, divination

Identified by its shiny stripes. Fyi all tigers eye is originally the amber color and is heat treated to be the red or blueish shades

Tourmaline

- love, friendship, money, business, health, peace, energy, courage, astral 75projection

Like selenite or kyanite it has its tiny columns but is pitch black

Turquoise (probably fakes)

-protection, courage, money, love, frienship, healing, luck

Often faked with howlite and magnesite, and can be tested by putting a small amout of acetone onto a small section of your stone to see if the dye comes off. but is identified but its turquoise color (what do you know!) And wrinkled darker cracks

Unakite.

- anti addiction, calm,

Kinda like bloodstone but much lighter, a light to medium green shade with a light redish orange splotches

Sorry for the wierd random grid pictue, i could only 50 photes for the whole post..

Well i hope this helps anyone out at identification of your own minerals. Good luck!!!