Nebula Stone™ / nebula jade
Commercial name for a rock with light green spots or “eyes” visible on a dark background. Exact composition or scientific name is not unambiguous. The…
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Nellite
Commercial name for a stone with a mainly yellow-brown to golden appearance, sometimes with blue spots or streaks, from Namibia or South Africa. There are…
New Jade
Misleading commercial name for the mineral bowenite, a translucent, fine-grained variety of serpentine antigorite, resembling nephrite. Also called bowenite jade and marketed under the misleading…
New Tanzanite
Misleading commercial name for gem-quality iolite, a violet-blue variety of the mineral cordierite. Using the name in connection with its resemblance to genuine (more expensive)…
Nickel
Nickel crystals are occasionally offered in dendrite or tree-like form, but this is all man-made. Nickel crystals may form on the wires used in the…
Nirvana (Ice) quartz
Commercial name for natural quartz with intermittent growth (irregular shapes and partial crystal faces) from the Himalayas. Also called (Himalayan) Ice quartz or interference quartz.…
Northern Light Stone
Commercial name for a metamorphic rock from Norway, a fuchsite schist or gneiss. The rock contains at least the green mica fuchsite and quartz; some…
Novaculite
Designation for a variety of chert. It is a fine-grained hard rock composed mainly of extremely fine-grained to cryptocrystalline quartz. It can be white, gray…
Oceanite
Another marketing name for blue-colored (aqua) banded calcite from Argentina. Also called Aquatine (Calcite)™, Blue Onyx or Lemurian Aquatine Calcite™.
Nuummite
An unofficial name for a dark metamorphic rock with elongated, golden iridescent crystals composed of alternating lamellae of anthophyllite and gedrite (ortho-amphiboles). Its appearance is…
