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Red aventurine - Cristalljoia, 40 years of minerals
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ETYMOLOGY: It comes from the Italian venture, which means "random". It is an allusion to the chance discovery of a synthetic crystal aventurine.
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Trigonal.
PRINCIPLE OF FORMATION: Primary.
MINERAL CLASS: Oxide, quartz group.
CHEMICAL FORMULA, MINERAL ELEMENTS: SiO2.
HARDNESS: 7 on the Mohs scale.
FIELDS: Brazil, India, Austria (Steiermark) Russia (Urals, Siberia) and Tanzania.
MINERALOGY: It grows in magmatitas (Magma = mass of molten rock) sediments and crystalline slates. Rock of metamorphic origin of fine-grained, dark colored laminated structure. It is characterized by the presence of certain inclusions. which they give their color (in this case yellow) and cause a whiteout known as aventurinado special effect. (Inclusions of Incorporations of hematites or of goethite, they give to the aventurina a dun reddish color, or hematite plates. Small to move the stone glows occur).
MYTHOLOGY: A type of crystal discovered by chance around 1700 gave the name to the ornamental stone Aventurine.
PROPERTIES: The red minerals are very exciting, turn you more extrovert and impulsive, strengthen the will power and the capacity of resistance, the red one stimulates the interior fire, favors the learning processes, the mental processing of vital experiences, accelerating thus our spiritual growth
CHAKRAS: Sacred, spleen
ZODIAC SIGN: Aries, Taurus, Gemini.
USES: Jewellery or as ornamental stone.