Commercial Mineral Names

Not required material for students of EPS 2!

Commercial Name................... Mineral Name

Accabar ........................ Black Coral
Achirite ....................... Dioptase
African jade ................... Green grossular garnet
Almandine spinel ............... Natural purple spinel
Amazon jade .................... Green microcline feldspar
Arkansas diamond ............... Rock crystal
Atlas pearls ................... beads of white satin spar
Aztec stone .................... smithsonite
Beccarite ...................... green zircon
Bishop stone ................... amethyst
Black amber .................... jet/ anthracite
Black Jack ..................... Sphalerite
Canary stone ................... yellow carnelian
Canary diamond ................. yellow diamond
Cape chrysolite .................prehnite
Cape emerald ....................prehnite
Cape ruby ...................... pyrope garnet
Ceruline ....................... Calcite w/malachite/azurite
Cinnamon stone ................. hessonite garnet
Colorado ruby .................. pyrope garnet
Coral agate .................... agate pseudomorphous
Craquelees ..................... cracked rock crystal
Cross stone .................... staurolit twin crystals
Cymophane ...................... chrysoberyl cat's eye
Danburite ...................... used to describe synth red corundum
Daourite ....................... red tourmaline 
Disthene ....................... kyanite
Ditroite ....................... sodalite
Dust pearls .................... seed pearls
Edinite ........................ prase
Egeran ......................... idocrase
Enhydrus ....................... chalcedony w/water inclusions
Eye stone ...................... thomsonite
Feather gypsum ................. satin spar
Flame spinel ................... nat.orange spinel 
Flash opal ..................... opal w/one color flash
Giogetto ....................... black pearl
Girasol ........................ fire opal
Goldfluss ...................... aventurine glass
Gold opal ...................... fire opal
Green starstone ................ chlorastrolite
Greenstone ..................... nephrite/chlorastrolite
Hawaiite ....................... peridot from Hawaii
Heliocite ...................... aventurine feldspar
Iceland agate .................. obsidian from Iceland
Imperial jade .................. jade from Burma
Inca stone ..................... pyrite
Indian jade .................... green aventurine quartz
Indian topaz ................... yellow sapphire
Jacinth ........................ red zircon & hessonite garnet
Jet ............................ black lignite
Jet stone ...................... black tourmaline / schorl
Kidney stone ................... nephrite
Korea jade ..................... almandine garnet
Lynx eye ....................... labradorite w/green ray
Lynx sapphire .................. iolite
Maiden pearl ................... untouched pearl in shell
Malacon ........................ brownish zircon
Manchurian jade ................ soapstone, talc
Maori stone .................... nephrite
Mexican onyx ................... stalagmitic calcite (cave)
Montana jet .................... obsidian
Montana ruby ................... red garnet
Nassau pearl ................... pink conch pearl
New Zealand greenstone ......... nephrite
Oriental alabaster ............. stalagmitic calcite
Oriental amethyst .............. violet sapphire
Oriental cat's eye ............. chrysoberyl catseye
Oriental topaz ................. yellow sapphire
Oriental emerald ............... green sapphire
Ox eye ......................... labradorite feldspar
Paris pearls ................... immitation pearls
Paste .......................... glass immitation
Pigeon blood agate ............. carnelian
Pink ice ....................... pink cubic zirconia
Pipe stone ..................... red siliceous clay
Prase opal ..................... stained green opal
Rainbow agate .................. iridescent agate
Red sea pearls ................. coral beads
River agate .................... water worn agate pebbles
River pearl .................... fresh water pearls
Rose kunzite ................... syn. pink sapphire or spinel
Rubicelle ...................... orange-red spinel
Rubolite ....................... red common opal
Ruby balas, ruby spinel ........ red spinel
Schmelye ....................... glass
Schnide ........................ blue glassy ordinary opal
Shell marble ................... lumachella
Starlite ....................... blue zircon
Star topaz ..................... yellow star sapphire
Trainite ....................... banded variscite
Transvaal jade ................. green grossularite
Vesuvian garnet ................ leucite
Vienna turquoise ............... imitation turquoise
Volcanic glass ................. obsidian
Wild pearl ..................... natural pearl
Yu ............................. jade
Zunite ......................... Arizona jasper
Zebra stone .................... layered jasper

This data from the compilation GEMSTONE