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Aventurine — specimen 0159, photo © NMNHS
Aventurine — specimen 0159, photo © NMNHS

Aventurinespecimen 0159

Origin

South Asia
India
Aventurine — specimen 0159, locality map
Data

Weight: 6.53 ct; size: 12.20 | 10.16 | 6.96 mm; shape: oval; colour: medium dark green; very slightly greyish; clarity: translucent; cut: fair; treatment: none.
Notes

Clean specimen; cabochon style cut.

Other specimens
Aventurine — specimen 0161Aventurine — specimen 0624

More information from ‘Classification’


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