Entry № 224
Green Tanzurine
Quartz (Tanzanian Aventurine-like)
Tanzanian aventurine — a green field of starlight.
Chakra
Heart
Element
Earth
Zodiac
Taurus · Libra

I. The Metaphysical Reading
How the stone has been held.
Green tanzurine is worked with as a stone of abundance and gratitude, held when someone needs to feel the richness of what is already present. The sparkling mica inclusions are said to catch light like small stars, reminding the holder that value is often a matter of attention.
- Chakra
- Heart
- Element
- Earth
- Zodiac
- Taurus · Libra
- Keynote
- Tanzanian aventurine — a green field of starlight.
II. The Scientific Reading
What the lattice actually does.
Green tanzurine is a quartz variety closely related to green aventurine, distinguished by its Tanzanian provenance and by chrome-bearing mica (fuchsite) inclusions that create both the green body colour and the characteristic aventurescent flash. It is a metamorphic quartzite rather than a true vein quartz, formed when silica-rich fluids permeated chrome-mica schist.
- Formula
- SiO₂ with chrome-mica inclusions
- System
- Trigonal
- Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Provenance
- Tanzania
References & Sources
Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.
Mineral Profile
Fact Sheet
- Chemical Formula
- SiO₂ with chrome-mica inclusions
- Crystal System
- Trigonal
- Mohs Hardness
- 7 (Mohs)
- Density
- 2.65 g/cm³
- Refractive Index
- 1.544 – 1.553
- Provenance
- Tanzania
- Color Origin
- Deep green with sparkling fuchsite mica inclusions
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
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The heart of the tourmaline family — vivid, prismatic, and electrically alive.




