Green Earth PG23
Pigment Green
Wide variety of dull to bright, dark blueish to light yellow greens. lightly staining w/ very weak tinting strength.
Terre Verte is defined as "natural earth containing both ferric and ferrous oxides, the variety mined at Monte Baldo near Verona, owes its colour to glauconite, ahydrated silicate of iron, aluminium and potassium. Widely distributed in Germany, etc. as Green Sand and Green Stone" (Ref Colorindex 3rd Ed., V.4, Inorganic colourants CI 77009). Composition of what can be called "Green Earth" can vary widely being a product of a multitude of weathered greenish minerals. The most common are the natural green clay minerals Glauconite and Celadonite(Ref Pigment Compendium).. "Green Earth is a decomposition product of augite and hornblende in the Mendip Hills and in France, Bohemia, Cyprus, etc.Green earths could alsoinclude many other weathered mineral deposits, and mixtures of clays ochres and others, conceivably containing alone or in mixtures of any of the following: Adamite, Aegirine, Amazonite, Amphiboles, Azurite, Celadonite, Chlorite, Chrysocolla, Conichalcite, Cronstedtite, Copper ore and it's naturally occurring salts, Copper Carbonate etc., Cuprorivaite, Dioptase, Diopside, Epidote, Eskolaite, Feldspar, Fuchsite, Glauconite, Green Apatite, Greenschist, Illite, Jade, Jaspar, Kaolinite, Iron oxides & Hydrated Iron oxides, limonite, Malachite, Montmorillonite, Olivenite, Quartz, Saponite, Serpentine, Verdelite, Volkonskoite,green tinged Yellow Ochres and umbers and Zoisite. More green minerals at webmineral.com.How Green earth is made and more green earth pigment information at webexhibits.org.
Colors by Brand for Green Earth
Mixed Colors that use the unique color Green Earth:
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