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  2. Aventurine - Wikipedia

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    Aventurine is used for a number of applications, including landscape stone, building stone, aquaria, monuments, and jewelry. Aventurine is a form of quartzite, characterised by its translucency and the presence of platy mineral inclusions that give it a shimmering or glistening effect termed aventurescence.

  3. Sunstone - Wikipedia

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    Oregon Sunstone is unique in that crystals can be quite large. The copper leads to variant color within some stones, where turning one stone will result in manifold hues: the more copper within the stone, the darker the complexion. [9] On August 4, 1987, the Oregon State Legislature designated Oregon Sunstone as its state gemstone by joint ...

  4. Aventurescence - Wikipedia

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    In aventurine quartz chrome-bearing fuchsite produces a green stone, and various iron oxides produce a red stone. The words aventurine and aventurescence derive from the Italian "a ventura", meaning "by chance". This is an allusion to the chance discovery of aventurine glass or goldstone at some point in the 18th century.

  5. List of gemstones by species - Wikipedia

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    Eilat stone; Epidosite; Glimmerite; Goldstone (glittering glass) Hawk's eye; Helenite (artificial glass made from volcanic ash) Iddingsite; Kimberlite; Lamproite; Lapis lazuli; Libyan desert glass; Llanite; Maw sit sit; Moldavite; Obsidian; Apache tears; Pallasite; Peridotite (also known as olivinite) Siilinjärvi carbonatite; Soapstone (also ...

  6. Goldstone (glass) - Wikipedia

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    Goldstone Goldstone glass under magnification. Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere.The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material.

  7. Sunstone (medieval) - Wikipedia

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    Iceland spar, possibly the medieval sunstone used to locate the Sun in the sky when clouds obstruct it from view. The sunstone (Icelandic: sólarsteinn) is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th-century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the Sun in a completely overcast sky.

  8. Gemstone - Wikipedia

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    A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

  9. Chapungu Sculpture Park - Wikipedia

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    For those seeking a more intimate encounter with contemporary Zimbabwean art, the park's indoor gallery houses an impressive array of sculptures crafted from semi-precious stones like rose quartz, verdite, aventurine, red jasper, and agate. These intricate pieces showcase the ingenuity and artistic vision of Zimbabwe's modern sculptors.

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