1 green aventurine tumble stone

### **Aventurine: The Sparkling Stone of Opportunity**  
**Aventurine** is a beautiful, translucent to opaque variety of **quartz** known for its shimmering, metallic inclusions that create a glittery effect called **aventurescence**. It comes in different colors, but the most common is **green aventurine**, followed by blue, red, orange, yellow, and gray.  
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### **Key Properties of Aventurine**  
- **Color**: Most commonly green (due to fuchsite mica), but also blue, red, peach, yellow, and brown.  
- **Luster**: Vitreous (glassy) with a sparkling effect from mineral inclusions.  
- **Hardness**: 6.5–7 on the Mohs scale (durable for jewelry).  
- **Composition**: Primarily quartz with inclusions of mica (fuchsite for green, hematite for red, etc.).  
- **Transparency**: Translucent to opaque.  
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### **Metaphysical & Healing Properties (Crystal Beliefs)**  
Many people use aventurine for its believed **metaphysical benefits**, including:  
- **Good luck & prosperity** – Known as the "Stone of Opportunity."  
- **Emotional balance** – Calms stress and anxiety.  
- **Heart healing** – Promotes compassion and emotional well-being (especially green aventurine).  
- **Manifestation** – Helps attract abundance and new opportunities.  
- **Physical healing** – Some believe it supports the immune system, heart, and metabolism.  
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### **Uses of Aventurine**  
1. **Jewelry** – Often made into beads, pendants, and rings.  
2. **Decorative Objects** – Carved into figurines, spheres, and palm stones.  
3. **Feng Shui** – Placed in wealth corners (southeast) for prosperity.  
4. **Meditation** – Used to enhance inner peace and clarity.  
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### **Fun Facts**  
- The name comes from the Italian *"a ventura"* (by chance), referencing its accidental discovery when glassmakers dropped metal flakes into molten glass.  
- **Goldstone** (a man-made glass) is often confused with natural aventurine but is not the same.  
- India and Brazil are major sources of high-quality green aventurine.