This is a green colored gem. This color occurs due to the presence of chromium impurity in the chemical composition. Peach, brown, gray, blue, greenish-brown, bluish-white, bluish green and orange are few other color shades of this stone but the primary color remains green.

 

 

Aventurine gemstone was found long back in 18th century. Its name is derived from the Italian word "avventura" that means by chance. This gemstone was discovered by chance thus, named accordingly. Due to its unique healing properties it is also called as comfort stone. Some people associate these gems with ‘Patron Saint Andrew’ thus refer aventurine as Andrew or Andre. It is coupled as anniversary gemstone for the 8th year of the marriage.

This attractive stone had always been in demand among the gemstone lovers because of its easy availability and fashionable look. With the growing popularity, more and more people want to buy it. For making successful purchase of any gemstone the buyer need to have little familiarity with the stone. Thus, this content fulfills the need of the necessary knowledge. It presents facts and information about this marvelous stone that would also act as buying guide. The content covers all the characteristics of the stone to the best possible extent.

 

Aventurine Color

This is a green colored gem. This color occurs due to the presence of chromium impurity in the chemical composition. Peach, brown, gray, blue, greenish-brown, bluish-white, bluish green and orange are few other color shades of this stone but the primary color remains green.

Aventurine Cut

Being a tough stone it can be easily given any cut. Jewelry designers thus try new innovative styles and shapes of this stone. Some common shapes are oval, round, pear, cabochons etc. Some usual shape is high dome shape used for rings. It is more popular as beads rather than gems. Beads in varied shapes are available in market. The most preferred bead shapes are round, oval and baroque.

Aventurine Clarity

It is semi translucent to opaque in nature and contains dull vitreous luster. It would mostly carry few inclusions of shiny mineral viz. mica or hematite due to which it attains the sparkling effect. This effect is termed as 'aventurescence', it occurs when light falls on the stone and the inclusions reflects it back creating the sparkle of different colors. Presence of mica in the composition offer silver sparkle and hematite results in reddish or grayish sparkle. These inclusions increase the value of the stone. Absolutely clean stone without any flaws largely resembles the precious stone Emerald but occurs seldom in natural form.

Carat weight

This stone occurs in large sizes as rough. After the initial gemstone cutting and polishing many different gemstones are created in different carat weights. When used as ornamental stone, the preferred weight of the stone is between 10-12 ctw. For the jewelry items the carat weight used is between 3-6ctw. The beads are processed in all sizes, from 2mm to 10mm.

 

Price

It is an inexpensive semi precious gemstone as found in abundant quantity in many parts of the world. The price is determined on the basis of color, carat weight, clarity and origin. Bright green color and high carat weight increases the price of the stone. In the same way a clear stone is priced more although in this gemstone it is rare to find the stone without any inclusions. Lastly, intense green colored gem from India are of superior quality thus, priced more than the stones obtained from other countries. The common man can easily afford it. The finest quality of Aventurine can be identified as brilliant green colored stone of high carat weight of Indian origin and without any inclusions. In case the inclusions are present and glittering effect is produced in the stone then price of the stone would increase.