Chinese jade
Misleading commercial name for a pale yellow-green serpentinite that looks like jade, but is not real jade. Calling it that way does make it easier…
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Dragon vein agate
Commercial name for heated and dyed agate, creating a crackle effect. Occurs in many colors such as orange, green, yellow, purple, pink and gray. The…
Blue Pearl Granite
Trade name from the natural stone industry for larvikite, a magmatic rock from Larvik, Norway, which contains, among other things, feldspars that show a bluish…
Dragon egg
Commercial fantasy name for septarian nodules with calcite cut in the shape of an egg. Referring to the appearance that may resemble a dragon egg…
Chinese flower jasper
Commercial name for a material originally sold in China as charoite. However, it is neither charoite nor jasper. It is a combination of low-grade fluorite…
Eclipse stone
Commercial name for a colorful volcanic rock found in West Java, Indonesia. Better known as bumblebee jasper/stone. The origin of the name eclipse stone is…
Boji® Stones
Registered trade name for a specific type of iron concretion from Kansas, United States. Also called (Kansas) Pop Rocks. It is actually a rock, a…
Dream quartz
Commercial name for quartz crystals with inclusions of epidote. There is also shaman dream quartz, also called garden quartz. This is also a quartz with…
Eldarite
An (esoteric) fantasy name for a gray-green to blue-green rhyolite rock with dark “eyes,” from Madagascar. Origin of the name is probably a reference to…
Chinese / Indian nuummite
Commercial name for a gabbro rock that resembles the true nuummite from Greenland but which has been identified by laboratory examination not to be nuummite.…
