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Since prehistoric times, people have used animal bones for ornamentation. Their relative softness lends to beautiful carvings for both detailed figurines and jewelry, often as beads. Cultures without access to ivory often used bone for similar purposes.

Named for the Greek khalkos meaning "copper," and "pyrite," chalcopyrite is a major ore of copper. It has a metallic luster, resembling gold. Specimens are often collected and are found in Colorado, Arizona in the USA, as well as England, Tasmania, Germany, Canada, Spain, Japan and China.

Hickoryite is a red, pink, and yellow banded variety of Rhyolite that comes from Rodeo, State of Durango, Mexico. Autumn or rainbow hickoryite is mostly brown or tan with red, pink, or yellow bands.

Olmiite was officially named as a new species in 2006. It is the Manganese dominant analog of poldervaartite. It is named after the Italian mineralogist Filippo Olmi. The only known location where olmiite is found is the N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari field, Republic of South Africa.

Not well known to the general public, howlite is one of those minerals that is almost more famous for imitating turquoise. Howlite is naturally milky white in color and often has dark vein-like mineral inclusions. Because of its porosity, it accepts dye fairly easily, achieving a turquoise-like blue color. Howlite accepts a nice polish and its porcelain-like luster is appealing.

Spiny oyster shells are covered with spines and are more closely related to scallops than to oysters. The varieties used in jewelry, are found in the Gulf of California, along the Mexican Pacific coast, the warmer South American waters, and the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is commonly used in Southwestern jewelry due to its vibrant orange, red, purple, and white colors.

Jasper is an opaque, fine grained variety of chalcedony quartz. It is typically found in red, yellow, brown or green colors and is generally spotted with these colors. Its name comes from the Latin word for the gem, iaspis, meaning "spotted stone."

“Anyolite” comes from the from the Masai word anyoli, meaning "green." It is also known as ruby in zoisite. It is a translucent to opaque rock composed of ruby crystals, green zoisite and black or very dark green pargasite. It is used for cabochons and decorative objects. It was first discovered in 1954 at the Mundarara Mine, near Longido, Tanzania. It has also been found in the Muriatata Hills, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.

Sard is a translucent chalcedony that is light to dark reddish-brown. It is formed from the deposition of silica at low temperatures from silica-rich waters percolating through cracks and fissures in other rocks. Sard is darker and browner in tone than carnelian.

Sodalite is a mineral used most often for carvings and some types of jewelry. Known for its rich, royal blue hues, sodalite is found in limited areas of the world. Frequently mottled with white veins of calcite, sodalite resembles lapis lazuli in appearance and has been mistaken for it at times. It can occur not only as blue, but also in crystals of gray, yellow, green or pink color.

A meteorite is a solid piece of debris that originated in outer space, entered Earth's atmosphere, and survived impact with the surface. These fragments are usually from comets or asteroids, or debris from the Moon or Mars. There are several known meteorite impact sites, including Campo Del Cielo, Argentina, the Sikhote Alin Mountains in Primorye, Russia, and the Sahara Desert region of Morocco. Meteorites are separated into three types based on their metal content: iron, stony-iron and stony.

Jeremejevite was named for a Russian mineralogist in 1883, but there are rarely any specimens found in Russia today. Recently Namibia has started to produce some mentionable crystals, but in such small amounts the stone is still very rare. Jeremejevite is typically found in pale blue-green, cornflower-blue to yellowish brown hues.