Chocolate aragonite/calcite
Commercial name for a chocolate brown aragonite and/or calcite, sometimes distinctly banded, usually from Pakistan. Primarily marketed in the form of polished spheres, towers and…
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Empowerite™
Registered trademark for a silica rock from New Zealand, resembling flint. Introduced to the esoteric world by Robert Simmons, who named the rock for the…
Chryso quartz
Commercial name for the combination of chrysocolla in quartz. Do you have a nice example of this stone and would like to provide a photo…
Epsomite
Official mineral name for magnesium sulfate, also called Epsom salt or bittersalt. Epsomite is named after a bittersalt spring near Epsom in Surrey, England. In…
Chrysopal
Green nickel-bearing variety of opal. So named for the similarity between chrysopal and chrysoprase, a nickel-bearing variety of chalcedony. Also known by the longer-standing name…
Endurite
Denoted as an “unusual gemstone” from India. It contains alternating layers of red jasper and silver-gray hematite. That sounds like banded iron stone, also known…
Chrysotile in serpentine
Correct designation for bands of white-gray to light green chrysotile in a dark green serpentine rock. Chrysotile is a fibrous mineral from the asbestos group…
Fairy Cross
Commercial name for twin crystals of the mineral staurolite, which form a perfect cross (usually at a 60-degree angle, sometimes at a 90-degree angle). The…
Angel chalcedony(quartz) / Spirit chalcedony(quartz)
Commercial name from esoteric sources for stalactite-grown chalcedony covered with small (druzy) quartz crystals from India. Sometimes the core of the stalactite is gone and…
Fairy Cross Stone
Commercial name for chiastolite, a variety of the mineral andalusite. After the black cross-shaped inclusions of graphite (carbon) in crystals of andalusite. The cross-shaped pattern…
