Chalcedony is a type of quartz with a wide variety of forms and colours. It is typically a semitransparent or translucent stone. They can come in almost any color under the rainbow depending on the minerals present when they form. The stones are a hardness 7 on the MOHS scale making them durable and suitable for daily use in jewellery. Most stones are found as domed Cabochon cuts.
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