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Aventurine Earrings
Aventurine is a form of quartz, characterized by it's
tranlucency and the prescence pf platey mineral inclusions that give a shimmering or glistening effect termed, aventurescence.
The most common color of aventurine is green, but
it may also be orange, brown, yellow, blue, or gray. Chrome-bearing fuchsite (a variety of muscovite mica is the classic inclusion,
and gives a silvery green or blue sheen. Oranges and browns are attributed to hematite or goethite. Because aventurine is
a rock, its physical properties vary: its specific gravity may lie between 2.64-2.69 and its hardness is somewhat lower than
single-crystal quartz at around 6.5.
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Beautiful polished chip beads of green aventurine accentuated by bright shiny imported glass sead beads and hung from
handmade sterling silver findings.
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