Fake Gemstone names
Fake Gemstone names
by Mark
List of Fake and false gemstone names and its Preferred Gemological Names.
No. | False Name | Preferred Gemological Name |
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1 | German diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
2 | Alaska Black diamond | Hematite |
3 | Adelaide Ruby | Almandite or garnet from Adelaide, Australia. |
4 | African emerald | Green fluorite from Namibia. |
5 | African jade | Green grossular garnet. |
6 | Alabandine ruby | Almandine garnet. |
7 | Alabaster onyx | Banded travertine or stalagmatic calcite. |
8 | Alaska Diamond | Rock Crystal (Quartz) |
9 | Alaska jade | Pectolite. |
10 | Alencon diamond | Quartz (rock crystal). |
11 | Alexandrine | Synthetic corundum or spinel |
12 | Alexandrite garnet | Color change garnet. |
13 | Almandine spinel | Lab grown spinel. |
14 | Alpine diamond | Pyrites. |
15 | Amazon jade | Amazonite (a feldspar). |
16 | Amberine | Yellowish green moss agate. |
17 | American Jade | Green idocrase |
18 | American Ruby | Pyrope or almandite(Garnet) or rose quartz |
19 | Ancona ruby | Rose quartz. |
20 | Andesine jade | Andesine. |
21 | Antilles pearl | Mother of pearl |
22 | Aqua gem | Light blue synthetic spinel. |
23 | Aqualite | Blue tourmaline. |
24 | Arabian magic diamond | Lab grown colorless or yellow corundum. |
25 | Arizona Ruby | Pyrope (garnet) |
26 | Arizona Spinel | Red or Green garnet |
27 | Arkansas diamond | Rock Crystal (Quartz) |
28 | Australian amber | Kauri resin. |
29 | Australian ruby | Garnet. |
30 | Baffa diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
31 | Balas ruby | Red Spinel |
32 | Bastard emerald | Peridot, green quartz, or nearly any green stone. |
33 | Beach moonstone | Quartz. |
34 | Bengal amthyst | Purple sapphire. |
35 | Berilo | Green apatite. |
36 | Black amber | Jet. |
37 | Black Hills ruby | Garnet. |
38 | Blue Alexandrite | Color change sapphire |
39 | Blue malachite | Azurite. |
40 | Blue moonstone | Artificially blue tinted chalcedony |
41 | Blue opal | Lazulite. |
42 | Blue talc | Kyanite. |
43 | Bohemian Chrysolite | Moldavite (Natural glass) |
44 | Bohemian diamond | Rock Crystal (quartz) |
45 | Bohemian emerald | Green fluorspar. |
46 | Bohemian ruby | Pyrope (garnet) or rose quartz |
47 | Bohemian topaz | Citrine |
48 | Bottlestone | Moldavite cut gems. |
49 | Brazilian aquamarine | Blue green topaz |
50 | Brazilian ruby | Red or ping topaz |
51 | Brazilian Sapphire | Blue Tourmaline |
52 | Briancon diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
53 | Brighton diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
54 | Bristol diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
55 | Broghton emerald | Glass emerald simulant. |
56 | Burma sapphire | Lab grown blue corundum. |
57 | Buxton diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
58 | California jade | Californite. |
59 | California moonstone | Chalcedony. |
60 | Californian ruby | Hessonite (grossular garnet) |
61 | Canadian lapis | Sodalite. |
62 | Candy spinel | Almandite (garnet) |
63 | Cape emerald | Prehnite. |
64 | Cape May diamond | Quartz. |
65 | Cape ruby | Pyrope garnet. |
66 | Cape-Chrysolite | Green Prehnite |
67 | Cape-ruby | Pyrope (garnet) |
68 | Catalina sardonyx | Catalinite |
69 | Ceylon diamond | Colorless zircon |
70 | Ceylon opal | Opal like glimmery moonstone |
71 | Ceylon peridot | Yellowish green tourmaline. |
72 | Chinese turquoise | Calcite/quartz/blue dyed soapstone. |
73 | Colorado diamond | Smoky quartz. |
74 | Colorado jade | Green microcline feldsapr. |
75 | Colorado ruby | Pyrope garnet. |
76 | Colorado topaz | Citrine. |
77 | Congo emerald | Dioptase. |
78 | Copper emerald | Dioptase. |
79 | Copper lapis | Azurite |
80 | Copper malachite | Chrysocolla. |
81 | Cornish diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
82 | Crystalline emerald | Quartz. |
83 | Dauphin diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
84 | Delta pearl | Imitation pearl. |
85 | Earth stone | Amber or andalusite. |
86 | Elie ruby | Pyrope garnet. |
87 | Emerald malachite | Green fluorspar. |
88 | Emerald matrix | Green fluorspar. |
89 | Emeraldine | Green dyed chalcedony. |
90 | Emeraldite | Green tourmaline. |
91 | Emeralite | Green tourmaline. |
92 | Emerauldine | Dioptase. |
93 | Evening emerald | Peridot. |
94 | Faience lapis | Ceramic. |
95 | False amethyst | Purple fluorspar. |
96 | False lapis | Dyed jasper, lazulite. |
97 | Fashoda ruby | Iron rich pyrope garnet. |
98 | Feldspar apyre | Andalusite. |
99 | Finder’s diamond | Colorless topaz. |
100 | Fire pearl | Billitonite. |
101 | Fossil turquoise | Odontolite. |
102 | Fukien jade | Soapstone. |
103 | Garnet jade | Massive green grossular garnet. |
104 | Geneva ruby | Synthetic Ruby. |
105 | German diamond | Rock Crystal (quartz) |
106 | German gold | Amber. |
107 | Gibsonville emerald | Green quartz. |
108 | Glass agate | Obsidian. |
109 | Gold sapphire | Lapis |
110 | Gold Topaz | Citrine (quartz) |
111 | Green garnet | Enstatite |
112 | Green onyx | Chalcedony. |
113 | Hawaiian Diamonds | Quartz. |
114 | Hawaiite | Peridot |
115 | Herkimer diamond | Quartz. |
116 | Hinjosa topaz | Yellow quartz. |
117 | Honan jade | Soapstone. |
118 | Hope sapphire | Synth blue spinel. |
119 | Horatio diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
120 | Hot Springs diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
121 | Hyacinth topaz | Hyacinth (zircon). |
122 | Iceland agate | Obsidian. |
123 | Imperial Mexican jade | Green dyed calcite. |
124 | Imperial sodden snow jade | White nephrite. |
125 | Indian emerald | Green colored cracked quartz. |
126 | Indian Jade | Aventurine (quartz) |
127 | Indian topaz | Yellow sapphire. |
128 | Irish diamond | Quartz. |
129 | Isle of Wight diamonds | Quartz. |
130 | Ivory pearls | Spheroids |
131 | Ivory turquoise | Odontolite. |
132 | Jade tenace | Saussarite. |
133 | Jadine | Australian chrysoprase. |
134 | Jasper jade | Green jasper or serpentine. |
135 | Jeweler’s topaz | Citrine. |
136 | Jourado diamond | Colorless synthetic spinel. |
137 | Kandy spinel | Reddish violet garnet |
138 | Killiecrankie diamond | Colorless topaz |
139 | Kings topaz | Yellow sapphire |
140 | Korean jade | Serpentine |
141 | Lake George diamond | Quartz. |
142 | Lithia amethyst | Kunzite(spodumene) |
143 | Lithia emerald | Hiddenite (spodumene) |
144 | Lux sapphire | Cordierite. |
145 | Lynz sapphire | Cordierite. |
146 | Madeira topaz | Citrine (Quartz) |
147 | Manchurian jade | Soapstone. |
148 | Marmarosch diamond | Rock Crystal (quartz) |
149 | Mass aqua | Glass simluant of aquamarine. |
150 | Matura Diamond | Colorless fired zircon |
151 | Medina emerald | Green glass. |
152 | Meru sapphire | Blue zoisite. |
153 | Mexican agate/jade/onyx | Massive/banded calcite. |
154 | Mexican Diamond | Rock Crystal (quartz) |
155 | Mogok diamond | Colorless Burmese topaz. |
156 | Mont Blanc ruby | Rose quartz. |
157 | Montana ruby | Red Garnet |
158 | Mother of emerald | Prase or green fluorite. |
159 | Mountain ruby | Red garnet. |
160 | Mutzschen diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
161 | Nerchinsk aquamarine | Blue topaz. |
162 | Nevada black diamond | Obsidian. |
163 | Nevada topaz | Smoky obsidian. |
164 | New jade | Bowenite. |
165 | Night emerald | Peridot. |
166 | Occidental cat’s eye | Quartz. |
167 | Occidental diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
168 | Occidental topaz | Citrine. |
169 | Oil pearl | Mother of pearl |
170 | Olivene | Demantoid garnet (olivine) |
171 | Orange topaz | Yellow quartz. |
172 | Oregon jade | Dark green chalcedony, jasper. |
173 | Oregon moonstone | Chalcedony. |
174 | Oriental amethyst | Violet sapphire |
175 | Oriental emerald | Green sapphire or green chlorospinel. |
176 | Oriental hyacinth | Pink sapphire |
177 | Palmeira topaz | Brown lab grown sapphire. |
178 | Palmyra topaz | Brown synthetic sapphire |
179 | Palmyra topaz | Heat treated yellow amethyst/citrine. |
180 | Paphros diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
181 | Pecos diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
182 | Pectolite jade | Pectolite (nothing to do with jade). |
183 | Pedrara onyx | Stalagmitic marble from Mexico. |
184 | Pink moonstone | Opalescent pink scapolite. |
185 | Pomegranate ruby | Red spinel. |
186 | Prismatic emerald | Euclase. |
187 | Prismatic moonstone | Chalcedony. |
188 | Prismatic quartz | Cordierite. |
189 | Pseudochrysolite | Moldavite. |
190 | Pyramidal garnet | Idocrase. |
191 | Pyroemerald | Green fluorite. |
192 | Quartz topaz | Citrine. |
193 | Quasima diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
194 | Quebec diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
195 | Radium diamond | Smoky quartz. |
196 | Rainbow magic diamond | Synthetic rutile. |
197 | Red sea perals | Coral beads. |
198 | Rhine diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
199 | Rhyolite glass | Obsidian. |
200 | Rock ruby | Pyrope garnet. |
201 | Rocky Mountain ruby | Garnet |
202 | Rose kunzite | Synthetic pink sapphire. |
203 | Rose moonstone | Pink scapolite. |
204 | Rozircon | Synthetic spinel. |
205 | Rubicelle | Yellow orange spinel. |
206 | Ruby balas | Red spinel. |
207 | Ruby spinel | Red spinel. |
208 | Sacred turquoise | Smithsonite. |
209 | Salamanca topaz | Citrine (Quartz) |
210 | San Diego ruby | Red tourmaline. |
211 | Sapphire quartz | Blue chalcedony, or hawk’s eye quartz. |
212 | Sapphire spinel | Blue spinel. |
213 | Sapphirine | Blue chalcedony, blue spinel, or blue glass. |
214 | Saxon Chrysolite | Greenish yellow topaz |
215 | Saxon diamond | Colorless topaz |
216 | Saxon topaz | Citrine. |
217 | Schaumberg diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
218 | Scotch topaz | Cairngorm, citrine, or smoky quartz. |
219 | Scottish topaz | Quartz. |
220 | Serpentine jade | Bowenite. |
221 | Serra topaz | Citrine (Quartz) |
222 | Shanghai jade | Steatite or talc. |
223 | Siam aquamarine | Heat treated blue / green zircon. |
224 | Siamese aquamarine | Blue zircon |
225 | Siberian Chrysolite | Demantoid (garnet) |
226 | Siberian ruby | Red tourmaline |
227 | Sicilian marble | Italian marble |
228 | Siliceous malachite | Green chrysocolla. |
229 | Silver peak jade | Malachite (local Nevada term). |
230 | Simili Diamond | Glass |
231 | Sinopal | Reddish aventurine quartz. |
232 | Slave-diamond | Colorless Topaz |
233 | Smoky Citrine | Smoky Quartz. |
234 | Smoky topaz | Smoky quartz |
235 | Soochow jade | Bowenite / steatite. |
236 | South African emerald | Fluorspar |
237 | Spanish emerald | Green glass. |
238 | Spanish lazulite | Cordierite (iolite). |
239 | Spanish Topaz | Citrine (Quartz) |
240 | Spinel ruby | Red spinel. |
241 | Star topaz | Yellow star sapphire. |
242 | Stolberg diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
243 | Strass diamond | Glass |
244 | Styrian jade | Pseudophite or penninite. |
245 | Swiss jade | Jasper. |
246 | Swiss lapis | Chalcedony or jasper. |
247 | Synthetic alexandrite | Synthetic corundum / spinel. |
248 | Synthetic aquamarine | Synthetic corundum / spinel. |
249 | Tasmanian diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
250 | Tecla emerald | False triplet. |
251 | Tecla pearls | Imitation pearls |
252 | Tokay lux sapphire | Hungarian black obsidian. |
253 | Tooth turquoise | Odontolite. |
254 | Topaz cat’s eye | Yellow girasol sapphire. |
255 | Topaz quartz | Brownish yellow quartz. |
256 | Topaz saffronite | Brownish yellow quartz. |
257 | Topazolite | Yellow andradite garnet. |
258 | Tourmaline green | Synthetic dark green spinel. |
259 | Transvaal emerald | Flourspar. |
260 | Transvaal jade | Green hydrogrossular garnet |
261 | Transvaal jade | Massive green grossular garnet. |
262 | Trenton diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
263 | Unripe ruby | Red zircon. |
264 | Ural sapphire | Blue tourmaline |
265 | Uralian emerald | Demantoid garnet. |
266 | Uralian sapphire | Blue tourmaline. |
267 | Utah onyx | Stalagmitic marble |
268 | Utah turquoise | Variscite. |
269 | Vallum diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
270 | Vanadium emerald | Green beryl |
271 | Verdelite | Green tourmaline. |
272 | Vermeil | Red zircon / garnets / spinel. |
273 | Vesuvian garnet | Leucite. |
274 | Vesuvianite jade | Californite. |
275 | Vienna turquoise | Glass |
276 | Volcanic chrysolite | Idocrase / Vesuvianite. |
277 | Washita diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
278 | Water chrysolite | Moldavite. |
279 | Water sapphire | Cordierite. |
280 | White garnet | Leucite. |
281 | Wyse ruby | Synthetic Ruby. |
282 | Yaqui onyx | Marble |
283 | Yava onyx | Marble |
284 | Zabeltitzen diamond | Rock crystal quartz. |
285 | Zebra jasper | Limonite |
286 | Zircon spinel | Synthetic blue spinel. |