Crystal Cacti & succulent carvng
Green Adventurine, white Jade, and Lepidolite Crystal Cacti
🍃💚Green Adventureine
Green Adventureine is usually a golden brown, but may also be found in blue or green. The majority of green and blue-green aventurine originates in India (particularly in the vicinity of Mysore and Chennai) where it is employed by prolific artisans.
If you see creamy white, gray and orange adventurine it is found in Chile, Spain and Russia.
💚🍃The most common inclusion in aventurine is fuchsite, a green chromium-rich mica. Just a few percent fuchsite by volume can impart a distinct green color to aventurine. Some specimens of aventurine contain ten to twenty percent fuchsite.
💚🍃Diagnostic Properties: Aventurescence, often green, hardness, conchoidal fracture. ...
🍃💚Mohs Hardness: 6.5 to 7 (A lower apparent hardness is observed if mica inclusions ...
💚🍃Cleavage: None, conchoidal fracture. Abundant mica inclusions with a common orie...
🍃💚Color: Usually green. Also orange, yellow, red, pink, purple, white, brown, and blue