Green Aventurine Heart - 2.0-2.2 inch

The Green Aventurine Heart is a soft sage to sea green stone, lighter and more muted than the deep bottle green the material often shows, with paler mottling drifting through the body. A fine glitter sits within the stone and catches only at certain angles, disappearing entirely at others. The polish is smooth with a slightly waxy feel, and this is a proper hand-sized Heart, broad across the lobes and solid enough to hold its place on a shelf. Tone and sparkle vary from piece to piece.

Green Aventurine carries one of the most persistent reputations in the crystal trade as a stone of manifestation and abundance, commonly kept close through anything that carries an element of chance. That same outlook softens into balance and harmony, giving it a settled sort of optimism rather than a push for a particular result. At this size the Heart works as a desk or shelf piece rather than something carried, and it reads clearly enough across a room to earn a visible spot.

Key Properties
Primary Focus: Manifestation & Abundance
Secondary Focus: Balance & Harmony
Chakra Association: Heart
Zodiac Sign: Aries, Leo
Chinese Zodiac: Tiger, Dragon
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Elements: Earth, Air
Mohs Hardness: 7
Stone Family: Tectosilicate
Material: Green Aventurine
Form: Heart
Finish: Polished
Approximate Size: 50-55 mm (2.0-2.2 inches)
Approximate Weight: 60-65 g
Listing:  Sold by Single unit

Geological Information
Green Aventurine is a member of the quartz family, composed of silicon dioxide, crystallising in the trigonal system at a Mohs hardness of 7. Its green colour and its metallic glitter both trace to the same source: inclusions of fuchsite mica, a chromium-bearing variety of muscovite, distributed through the quartz. Light reflecting off flat, parallel mica platelets produces the shimmer, an optical effect known as aventurescence, and the stone's name comes from the Italian a ventura, meaning by chance, after the accidental discovery of aventurine glass. The material is natural and requires no treatment. Green Aventurine is routinely mistaken for jade in the retail market; it is a quartz-family stone rather than a jade, and the sparkle is the reliable way to tell them apart, since jade shows none. It was used extensively in ancient Chinese and Tibetan carving traditions. Sources include Brazil, India, Russia, Tanzania, and China.

AuturaSol Standard
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