Facts About Green Aventurine Gemstone

Green Aventurine gemstone is a Libra’s star sign and Taurus’s planetary stone. Green Aventurine gemstone is a luminous to opaque variety of microcrystalline quartz. It comprises small inclusions of glowing minerals that offer the gemstone s shining effect that known as aventurescence. Mica’s inclusions will offer a silverfish sheen whereas hematite’s inclusion offers a greyish or reddish sparkle.

Green Aventurine ranges in color from peach, blue, creamy green, and green. Apart from its usages in jewelry, Green Aventurine is also utilized for ornamental purposes such as figurines, bowls, and vases. Green Aventurine is majorly found in Chile, Brazil, Russia, Spain, Tanzania, and Austria. It is a 6.5 on Mohs scale of rigidity. This mineral is frequently mistaken for jade or amazonite. It is amazing that the name for the gemstone is originated from an accident. Somewhere in 18^th century, Venetian glass worker were making molten glass when copper filings unintentionally drop in the batch generating a glass with sparkles. The Aventurine name came from the Italian “a ventura” that means “by chance.”