
Green Onyx: The Ultimate Guide to Meaning, Properties ...
Green Onyx is quite hard to scratch with a hardness of to 7 on the Mohs scale. Green Onyx is a layering or banding of the crystalline mineral chalcedony and quartz arranged as microfine crystals often called cryptocrystalline. There are often layers of opaque moganite that give the green onyx an opaque, banded appearance.