Astraline™
Unregistered commercial name for quartz, combined with muscovite and cronstedtite (mineral from the serpentine group). Do you have a nice example of this stone and…
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Atlantis Stone
This name is used for several minerals. Among others, for larimar (a variety of pectolite). ‘Channelled’ by Edgar Cayce and mainly used in the new-age…
Atlantisite™
Unregistered commercial name for a serpentinite rock composed of green minerals from the serpentine group and purple stichtite. This trademark was registered by Crystal Universe…
Aura Quartz
Commercial name for mostly natural lower-grade quartz that has undergone laboratory treatment. In a vacuum chamber (heated to about 870 °C) an ultra-thin layer of…
Azotic Topaz
Commercial name for laboratory-treated white topaz coated with titanium. Do you have a nice example of this stone and would like to provide a photo…
Auralite 23®
Registered trade name for amethyst with inclusions of ferrous minerals, in most cases probably hematite. This amethyst variant is claimed to have inclusions or traces…
Azumar™
Unregistered commercial name coined in 2014 by Robert Simmons (Heaven & Earth) and used for material he marketed at the major mineral show in Tucson,…
Aurora Quartz
Fantasy name for natural quartz in which rainbow colors occur due to refraction of light on internal fracture surfaces. Other names used for quartz with…
Bahia ‘citrine’
Commercial name for a heated amethyst (also called heat-treated amethyst or HTA) with a yellow-orange to orange-brown color. Because genuine (untreated) citrine is a rare…
Australian jade
Misleading commercial name for chrysoprase, a green variety of chalcedony. As is often the case, the name jade is used to make the customer pay…
