Agate
Name for a distinctly striped or banded chalcedony. Originally found in the river Dirillo (formerly Achates) in Sicily, Italy, from which the name is derived.…
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Agape Crystal®
Registered trademark used for material said to contain the following combination of minerals: quartz, smoky quartz, rutile quartz, amethyst, goethite, lepidocrocite and cacoxenite. A combination…
Agni Manitite
Commercial name for rounded pebbles of obsidian found in rivers around Malamingan, Sumatra, Indonesia. These water-rolled obsidian fragments are usually dark, almost black, but show…
Agnitite™
Unregistered commercial name for clear to milky white quartz with red to reddish-brown inclusions of hematite, mainly from Madagascar. The word “Agni” means fire in…
Alligator quartz
Synonym for so-called jacaré quartz, a growth form of quartz (usually smoky quartz) with many parallel crystal faces (bulges). Jacaré quartz is named after the…
Amegreen™
Unregistered commercial name for banded amethyst (also called chevron amethyst) combined with prasiolite, a green transparent variety of macrocrystalline quartz (also improperly called green amethyst).…
Amazez™
Commercial name for banded amethyst, also called chevron amethyst. The name Amazez™ is an amalgamation of the names amethyst and Azeztulite™, referring to the white…
American jade
A misleading local name for massive vesuvianite or a rock containing mostly vesuvianite. Except that the material resembles jade, there is no relationship mineralogically. Jade…
Amazon jade/stone
Misleading commercial name for amazonite, a green variety of microcline, a mineral in the feldspar group. Amazonite has no relation to jade but calling the…
