Green Aventurine (AAA) 8mm Round 8-Inch HIDDEN080119 Viking explorers used thin pieces

Viking explorers used thin pieces of Iolite as the world’s first polarizing lens to help them determine the exact location of the sun for navigation

This prompted an alternative name for the gemstone: Princess Blue

The stone's mossy greens

Its inclusions of red

and typically appear in light yellow-green to blue-green to deep moss green

Green Aventurine (AAA) 8mm Round 8-Inch HIDDEN080119 Viking explorers used thin piecesGreen Aventurine is a green translucent quartz with glimmering metallic inclusions. Green is the most common color for Aventurine, but it can also occur as orange, brown, yellow, blue or gray. The color of Green Aventurine comes from Fushite particles within the quartz. It is known as the Stone of Opportunity, and thought to be the luckiest of all crystals.