Green Aventurine
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Green aventurine is worn as a stone of luck and opportunity, nicknamed the "gambler's stone" for its reputation of drawing good fortune. In China and Tibet it was carved into jewelry and snuff bottles for centuries in that belief, and its name comes from the Italian "a ventura," by chance, after 18th-century Venetian glassmakers gave the name to a sparkling glass this quartz resembles.
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