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Aventurine — specimen 0624, photo © NMNHS
Aventurine — specimen 0624, photo © NMNHS

Aventurinespecimen 0624

Origin

South America
Brazil
Aventurine — specimen 0624, locality map
Data

Weight: 3.29 ct; size: 11.95 | 9.78 | 3.86 mm; shape: oval; colour: medium dark very slightly bluish green; very slightly greyish; clarity: translucent; cut: fair; treatment: none.
Notes

Clean specimen; cabochon style cut.

Other specimens
Aventurine — specimen 0159Aventurine — specimen 0161

More information from ‘Classification’


A rock; quartz with fuchsite (greenish variety of muscovite) inclusions.