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SiO₂
Aventurine
Murano glassmakers once spilled copper into a melt and liked the accident enough to name it.
- Formula
- SiO₂
- Mohs hardness
- 7
- Crystal system
- trigonal
- Colour
- green
- Element
- earth
- Chakra (tradition)
- heart
- Zodiac
- Aries, Virgo, Leo
- Month
- —
- Where the earth keeps it
- India, Brazil, Russia
What it actually is
Aventurine is SiO₂ before it is a story. The lattice is trigonal, Mohs 7, and the eye meets green.
The better pieces still come out of the ground in India, Brazil, Russia. Murano glassmakers once spilled copper into a melt and liked the accident enough to name it.
What the old tradition whispers
The parlour tradition ties Aventurine to earth and to the heart centre. The old site stood it near: Aries, Virgo, Leo.
How not to turn it to ash
Quartz will take lukewarm water and a cloth. Long sun fades amethyst and rose quartz. Perfume is a worse neighbour than dust.