Lutz or Aventurine. (A) A lutz marble is any marble containing goldstone, a form of glass made with copper or copper salts. Goldstone is also sometimes called aventurine glass, but aventurine is green.Lutz marbles feature one or more unmistakable swirls or bands of shimmering, reddish brown.Lutz style marbles are particularly beautiful and very collectible, especially antique handmades.B) Goldstone is a type of glittering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atmosphere. Another common name for the material is aventurine glass, based on the original Italian name avventurina (from avventura, adventure or chance).
Tijeras, New Mexico. Tijeras is a village in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 541 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Become True Certified. Two canyons come together at Tijeras, the Spanish name for scissors. Tijeras Canyon, leads west towards Albuquerque, and Cedro Canyon, leads south to the Manzano Mountains as The Salt Mission Trail. The area was first inhabited by pueblo Indians, living in a pueblo whose ruins can be seen behind the USFS station.