Sea Jasper
Unregistered commercial name used for a multicolored silicified rhyolite or tuff from central Madagascar. In this originally volcanic rock, quartz or chalcedony and feldspar have…
Tag: rhyolite
Rainforest jasper/rhyolite
Commercial name for a predominantly green volcanic rock with brown and orange spots in round structures. The rock is a rhyolite and not a jasper…
Pakulite™
Unregistered cmmercial name for a variety of rhyolite, a fine-grained spherulitic volcanic rock, usually with flow lines. Named for its site, Mount Paku in New…
Ocean Jasper™
Commercially registered trade name used for a multicolored silicified rhyolite or tuff from Madagascar. In this originally volcanic rock, quartz or chalcedony and feldspar have…
Leopard jasper / Leopard-skin Jasper
Commercial name for a volcanic rock (rhyolite) consisting of dark round spots/circles in a lighter-colored matrix, often with reddish-brown bands or spots. Named after the…
Kabamba / Kambaba – jasper/stone
Commercial name for a gray-green to blue-green rhyolite rock with dark “eyes,” from Norcross, central Madagascar. It is thus not a jasper variety. There are…
Hickorite / Hickoryite
Fancy commercial name for a banded variety of rhyolite, a volcanic rock, from near Rodeo, Durango, Mexico. It was introduced into commerce in 2008 as…
Eldarite
An (esoteric) fantasy name for a gray-green to blue-green rhyolite rock with dark “eyes,” from Madagascar. Origin of the name is probably a reference to…
Llanite / Llanoite
Local name for a volcanic rock (rhyolite) that includes blue quartz and feldspar crystals. Named after the locality, the Llanite Rhyolite site in Llano County,…
Que Sera Stone™
Registered commercial trader name for a volcanic rock (rhyolite) that includes blue quartz and pink feldspar. Esoteric crystal author Melody first described the rock in…
