Jungle jasper/serpentine
Commercial name for a green with brown serpentine containing rock, primarily offered from Pakistan. Contains bright green lines and spots in a light brown matrix…
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Kabamba / Kambaba – jasper/stone
Commercial name for a gray-green to blue-green rhyolite rock with dark “eyes,” from Norcross, central Madagascar. It is thus not a jasper variety. There are…
Cat’s eye / bull’s eye
Commercial name for a red to reddish-brown variety of tiger’s eye, also called Dragon’s Eye, bull’s eye or preferably red tiger’s eye. Red tiger’s eye…
Kaurilite™
Unregistered commercial name for an amber-like substance. So named by Robert Simmons (Heaven & Earth). It is a fossilized or semi-fossil resin from the ancient…
King Cobra Jasper
Commercial name for a rock with round fragments that make it look like a conglomerate, a type of natural concrete. No exact composition or origin…
King Solomon 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 King Solomon,…
Kiwi jasper
Misleading commercial name for a gray-greenwith black speckled granite-like rock marketed as a “gemstone” since 2015. The name is inspired by its New Zealand origin…
Korean jade
Misleading commercial name for the mineral bowenite, a translucent, fine-grained variety of serpentine antigorite, resembling nephrite. Also marketed under the misleading names bowenite jade, new…
Kundalini citrine/quartz
Commercial name for natural citrine from Congo. The name is mostly used in the esoteric world and has almost become a synonym for the typical…
Labrador Black / Blue (Pearl) Granite
Trade name from the natural stone industry for larvikite, a magmatic rock (syenite or monzonite, not granite) from Larvik, Norway. Among other things, the rock…
