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…
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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…
Eilat stone
Commercial name for a greenish-blue inhomogeneous mixture of various secondary copper minerals such as malachite, azurite, turquoise, pseudomalachite, chrysocolla and others. Named after the site…
Bolivianite
Commercial name originally used as a synonym for ametrine, after the first discovery in Bolivia (Anahi Mine). Although ametrine is now found in other locations…
Eagle’s Eye
A commercial name used for various different stones. The name is mainly used for polished stones that most closely resemble a type of gray tiger’s…
