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…
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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…
Aqualite™
Commercial name for blue apatite in quartz. Several registrations have been found for the brand name Aqualite, but none involve a mineral or gemstone. Do…
Arcanite
Official mineral name for a form of potassium sulfate (K2SO4). In 1845, Wilhelm Carl von Haidinger gave the mineral this name derived from the Latin…
Aquaprase
Commercial name for ocean blue-green-colored chalcedony. The name in reference to an aqua blue chrysporase, also a chalcedony variety. Could also, according to a discussion…
Arctic Green
Commercial name (especially in the natural stone trade) for a metamorphic rock from Norway, a fuchsite schist or gneiss. The rock contains at least the…
