This has been confused with aventurine feldspar, amazonite and jade. To imitate both Aventurine Quartz and aventurine feldspar Goldstones has been made. It contents small triangles and hexagons of copper held in glass. With the help of 10x loup possible to see the copper outlines.

Aventurine quartz contains small crystal inclusions that reflect light, so that it gives a range of colors to the stone. Green aventurine quartz has platy inclusions of green fuchsite mica. Due to the presence of mineral goethite greenish brown color produced. Other inclusions give bluish white, bluish green or orange.

This is found in Brazil, Russia and India. USA, Japan and Tanzania are the other producers. Cabochon, polished slabs and cameo are the available cuts.