Andara™ ‘crystals’/obsidian
This is perhaps one of the biggest and most persistent hoax stories today. Often referred to by sellers as natural volcanic glass, sometimes with the…
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Angel quartz
Commercial name for cactus quartz. Learn more about quartz growthforms? Take the mini course!
Angelite
Commercial name for a semi-transparent light blue-gray to blue-lilac anhydrite. Sold with this name is usually the solid form from Peru, but anhydrite crystals are…
Angelinite™
Unregistered commercial name for a white, crystalline opaque stone, possibly quartz or calcium carbonate (aragonite/calcite), but its exact composition is not known. In her 3rd…
Anyolite
Local (trade) name for a stone better known as “ruby in zoisite. Named after the Masai word Anyole (= green). Anyolite is sometimes sold as…
Aqua Terra Jasper
Misleading commercial name for synthetically molded resin. Nothing natural about it at all, no jasper or other mineral to be found in it. Especially popular…
Apache tear
Local name for spherical obsidian, usually embedded in gray perlite, mainly from Arizona, United States. The spheres of black-gray translucent obsidian occur as cores in…
Aphrodite stone
Commercial fantasy name for cobalt-bearing calcite (also called cobalto-calcite), named after the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, sexuality and fertility, among other…
Arabic Stone
Commercial name for a yellowish-brown to brownish-red sedimentary rock from the Indian Himalayas with light brown lines and arches. So named because of its resemblance…
Aquatine (calcite)™
Unregistered commercial name for blue-colored (aqua) banded calcite from Argentina. Also called blue onyx, Lemurian Aquatine Calcite™ or oceanite. Incidentally, this is one of those…
