Properties & Information

Green Tourmaline

Green Tourmaline

Green TourmalineSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Tourmaline, often called verdelite in the gem trade, is a color category within the tourmaline group rather than one species. Much gem green tourmaline is elbaite,...

Green Tourmaline

Green TourmalineSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Tourmaline, often called verdelite in the gem trade, is a color category within the tourmaline group rather than one species. Much gem green tourmaline is elbaite,...

Green Tanzurine

Green Tanzurine

Green TanzurineSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Tanzurine is a trademarked name for green quartz-rich material from northern Tanzania. Published gemological work has described green Tanzurine as quartz or aventurescent quartzite colored by...

Green Tanzurine

Green TanzurineSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Tanzurine is a trademarked name for green quartz-rich material from northern Tanzania. Published gemological work has described green Tanzurine as quartz or aventurescent quartzite colored by...

Green Sardonyx

Green Sardonyx

Green SardonyxSCIENCE / MINERALOGYSardonyx is a banded chalcedony variety composed of alternating sard-colored and lighter onyx-like layers. 'Green Sardonyx' is a commercial color term for green-and-white banded chalcedony, but much...

Green Sardonyx

Green SardonyxSCIENCE / MINERALOGYSardonyx is a banded chalcedony variety composed of alternating sard-colored and lighter onyx-like layers. 'Green Sardonyx' is a commercial color term for green-and-white banded chalcedony, but much...

Green Opalized Wood

Green Opalized Wood

Green Opalized WoodSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Opalized Wood is fossil wood in which original plant tissue has been replaced or infilled primarily by opal rather than fully crystalline quartz. The replacement...

Green Opalized Wood

Green Opalized WoodSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Opalized Wood is fossil wood in which original plant tissue has been replaced or infilled primarily by opal rather than fully crystalline quartz. The replacement...

Green Opal

Green Opal

Green OpalSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Opal is a green variety of opal, a hydrated amorphous silica mineraloid commonly represented as SiO₂·nH₂O. Most green material is common opal without play-of-color. Its color...

Green Opal

Green OpalSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Opal is a green variety of opal, a hydrated amorphous silica mineraloid commonly represented as SiO₂·nH₂O. Most green material is common opal without play-of-color. Its color...

Green Onyx

Green Onyx

Green OnyxSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Onyx is a commercially ambiguous name. True onyx is parallel-banded chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz material with a hardness near 7, but much decorative 'Green Onyx' on...

Green Onyx

Green OnyxSCIENCE / MINERALOGYGreen Onyx is a commercially ambiguous name. True onyx is parallel-banded chalcedony, a microcrystalline quartz material with a hardness near 7, but much decorative 'Green Onyx' on...