Aventurine
At a glance
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Oxide
- Crystal system
- Trigonal
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Medium (2.5 to 3.2)
- Occurs in
- Metamorphic rocks
- Foliation
- Not layered
- Colour
- Orange, Green, Blue, Brown
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Jewellery
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Aventurine is quartz full of tiny mica flakes, often green fuchsite, that make it glitter.
- The name comes from the Italian a ventura, by chance, after a glittering glass made by accident in Venice.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q429742 · All stones · All entries