Stone Jargon
June 24, 2008 4:49 pm Glossaries, Jewelry Making| Amethyst: | transparent purple stone, sometimes with inclusions. Hues range from lavender to deep regal purple. |
| Aventurine: | green or blue semi-translucent to mostly opaque stone with mica flecks that cause a slight metallic iridescence |
| Black Onyx: | a black opaque stone |
| Bloodstone: | dark green opaque stone with red spotting |
| Blue Lace Agate: | light blue translucent stone with white or milky banding |
| Cape Amethyst (Amethyst Quartz): |
translucent light to medium purple stone with white banding |
| Carnelian: | orange to bright red-orange translucent stone |
| Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal): |
a colorless transparent stone |
| Fancy Jasper: | an opaque multi-colored stone; colors are muted and range from green-blue to pinkish to orange-yellow frequently in the same stone |
| Fluorite: | a transparent stone; green and purple with clear areas or bands |
| Garnet: | a transparent stone ranging in color from light red to darkish plum red |
| Hematite: | a silvery, shiny opaque stone that almost looks like metal |
| Iolite: | a transparent blue-violet stone; the lighter colors show more of the violet hue |
| Lapis Lazuli: | a dark, royal blue opaque stone with white veins or patches called calcite and a few gold-looking metallic flecks called pyrite |
| Malachite: | an opaque, banded stone; the colors in the bands range from a very light green to almost black |
| Moonstone: | a translucent milky stone with a little iridescence; can be found in several colors, most common are whitish-clear, grey, and light peach |
| Moss Agate: | not an agate, strictly speaking, but a chalcedony. Semi-transparent to opaque, mostly a variety of green tones with a little white or clear |
| Natural Carnelian: | a light to medium orange translucent stone, frequently with areas of lighter and darker orange for a banded or mottled look |
| Natural Onyx: | a semi-translucent to opaque, light colored stone with some banding found in varying degrees of yellowish-white, pale greenish-white, and grey |
| Picture Jasper: | a tan, opaque stone with medium and dark brown patches |
| Poppy Jasper: | opaque with colors of brick red, whites, browns and blacks |
| Red Jasper: | an opaque, mostly red stone |
| Rhodochrosite: | a medium to light pink opaque stone with cream or creamy-pink banding |
| Rhodonite: | a pink, opaque stone from medium pink to dusty rose, often with black inclusions |
| Rose Quartz: | a pink transparent stone, sometimes leaning toward translucent, or with inclusions |
| Smokey Quartz: | a brown transparent stone; color ranges from very slightly brown to dark |
| Tiger’s Eye: | an opaque brown stone, with bands of darker brown and golden-yellow |
| Unakite: | an opaque stone variegated with shades of green and pink, sometimes with a little russet or red |
| White Marble: | an opaque stone with a little metallic shimmer to it |
| White Onyx: | a semi-translucent white to slightly yellowish-white stone that sometimes has an opaque white banding |
| White Quartz: | a translucent white stone with varying degrees of opacity having some areas of cloudiness |
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