Australian jade
Misleading commercial name for chrysoprase, a green variety of chalcedony. As is often the case, the name jade is used to make the customer pay…
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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…
Afghanistan/Afghan jade
Misleading commercial name for the mineral bowenite, a variety of antigorite, a mineral from the serpentine group. So it is not jade, but is sold…
