Jade
The name jade is unfortunately common in this library. Jade has traditionally been a beloved and valuable ornamental stone. By using the name for similar…
Category: Gem or Scam? Library
Jadine
Misleading commercial name for Australian chrysoprase (a green variety of chalcedony). So again, this is not real jade, but the name is used to better…
Jasper
Mineralogical name for a variety of chalcedony, which in turn is a microcrystalline variety of quartz. Geologically, the name has long been used for an…
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…
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…
