Green Aventurine Bracelet

Non-toxic and durable. Cleanse with mild soap and water; avoid harsh chemicals and prolonged strong sunlight, which can fade the color.

Most Green Aventurine is mined in India, with additional sources in Brazil, Chile, Russia, and Tanzania. It forms as quartz colored and made to shimmer by inclusions of fuchsite, a chromium-rich mica.

Green Aventurine is a translucent to opaque variety of microcrystalline quartz (SiO2) whose green color and glittering aventurescence come from inclusions of fuchsite mica. It crystallizes in the trigonal system, has a vitreous luster, and rates about 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale.

• Its name derives from the Italian a ventura, meaning by chance, after Venetian glassmakers accidentally created a sparkling aventurine glass.
• According to tradition, aventurine was set as the eyes of statues to sharpen visionary and prophetic sight.
• It was long carried as a luck talisman by gamblers and travelers hoping to improve their fortune.