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…
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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.…
Boli Stone
Commercial name for calcite crystals found in the desert of Saudi Arabia. The stones have become smooth from the action of wind and sand. Do…
Grape agate
A commercial name for spherical (botryoidal) quartz aggregates from Indonesia, also called Grape chalcedony. The name refers to the shape and color, which are reminiscent…
Chinese larimar
Commercial name for various stones that should pass for real larimar, a relatively rare and therefore precious mineral. Unfortunately, due to larimar’s popularity, it is…
