Adventuring with Green Aventurine Necklace and Earring Set

Necklace & Earring Set #92

Length Necklace 16.5″ can be lengthened with extender, Earrings 2 1/4″

10mm light green Aventurine and Cultured Pearls play well together in this fun chunky necklace and earring set.  The necklace can be lengthened at no addition cost with a stainless steel chain.  A nice sized stainless lobster clasp, and all stainless steel metals throughout pair well with these casual green globes.  This is a really fun statement necklace or one that can be layered with a longer strand of pearls.

Green aventurine forms in both igneous and metamorphic rocks, with its shimmering effect due to inclusions of other minerals like mica.  These inclusions are responsible for the “aventurescence”, or sparkle, that is characteristic of aventurine. 

According to Brittanica:

Aventurine, either of two gem minerals, one a plagioclase feldspar and the other quartz. Both have a sparkling reflection from oriented minute inclusions of mica or *hematite.

Most aventurine quartz is *silvery, yellow, reddish brown, or green. Extensive beds in mica schist occur in the Russian Urals. Green aventurine, colored by a chrome mica, has been found in the state of Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras), India; in China; and in Rutland, Vt. Aventurine quartz is used for jewelry, for vases and bowls (sometimes very large), and for other ornamental objects.

*The large Green Aventurine rock seen in the photos is from my collection.  You can see the silvery glow and the hematite all in this really cool rock.