Search this site

The following menus exists:

Back to previous menu

The Crystal Cave


Aventurine

SiO2

Silicates.
Appearance: Appears as massive masses of green crome quarts, that gives a spangled green or brownish-yellow look. Can even be blue. Normally used as a gem stone.
Hardness: 7.
SG: 2,6
Translucent or semitransparent.
Crystal system: Trigonal, hexagonal, crypto crystaline.


This page was last changed on: Nov 29 2002
Copyright (c) Umeå Mineral & Kristall KB, Sweden 2000-2005