LORE Crystal & Rock Identifier

LORE is a field guide to stones, crystals, and minerals — the natural history of what you find, and what people have believed about it. Know what you find. Discover what it means. IDENTIFY WHAT YOU'RE HOLDING Photograph a stone and LORE gives you the closest matches from its 78-entry guide, along with what it actually observed in your photograph: colour, transparency, surface. It does not pretend to certainty it doesn't have. Most minerals cannot be settled from a photograph alone — colour shifts with the light, and polishing removes the crystal form that would decide it. So when LORE is confident it names one stone, and when it isn't it gives you a ranked shortlist and a physical test that separates them. "Hold a thin edge up to the light. If it stays fully opaque, that supports red jasper. If it glows orange-red, it's more likely carnelian." That's what a field guide does. It's the…