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., and It was long carried as a luck talisman by gamblers and travelers hoping to improve their fortune.

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