7 Nordic Gems - Unique Stones from Sweden, Norway, & More!

Today, gemologist Rebecca checks out unusual gemstones from Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway...even Greenland & the Faroe Islands! Learn about the rare mineral treasures northern Europe has to offer - including ancient geologic wonders, scientific curiosities, & amazing optical phenomena!
01:02 - Finland's Spectrolite
02:23 - Swedish Blue
03:54 - Norway's national gemstone
05:05 - Denmark's Amber & Glendonites
06:40 - What is Iceland Spar?
08:19 - Greenland Gemstones
09:20 - Faroe Islands Treasure
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[@gems]

It was fun to check out 7 amazing places, each with their own special gemstone! Did you have a favorite? Let us know!

[@seancrisci610]

💖Labradorite is a Amazing🔥

[@StigDesign]

Berg Krystall named in Norway is Nice too :D

[@andrasbarkoczi3617]

My favourite is nuummite, I have a bracelet from it, and love it!

[@cryforthemoon]

Thulite! Looks so amazing in the sun when it sparkles.

[@coreymerrill3257]

I regularly watch field gemology with Vincent Purdiue to learn as that's about my limited speed with no professional training . he has shown at least one ruby mine in Greenland...aappalutoq .

[@elisabethe8055]

I know Sweden is most famous for our iron, but we have other things even more interesting in my mind that is totally unique and dont exist anywhere else. Like Dellenite, from a meteor impact in the landscape of Hälsingland, and Älvdalsporphyr from Dalarna. Thank you for checking in to us up in the north, that was fun! :)

[@rehsifyecrad3436]

Yes all the magnetite with highest yield of iron at 70%. I believe it's probably why the viking had such upper hand in pillaging is their steel is superior lol.

[@elisabethe8055]

@@rehsifyecrad3436 yup! I think you are spot on that one! 😄

[@bjoardar]

@@rehsifyecrad3436 Look up "Ulfbehrt sword" in the search here in youtube. Swedish iron turned into (probably) Frankish steel. It's what other top quality swords of that time strived to be ^^

[@rehsifyecrad3436]

@@bjoardar OOOO i’ll check it out now

[@ZaDussault]

I tested my iceland spar, and it really can find the sun when it's cloudy, pretty awesome

[@barbarianbarbie3383]

We also have a emerald mine in Minnesund Norway.

[@davidrazzano9298]

These historical/educational episodes are my favorite content from you guys. Keep up the great work!

[@l1mi13]

3:00 I can add that we used to have buildings from these slag stones. I remember we had an "old" ruin left where kids went to pick up pretty stones back in 1986.

[@Koofuku1ce]

Imagine mentioning Norway and not mention Larvikite from Larvik :D It's so beautiful

[@PeterHAdams]

Slag is found anywhere metal smelting occurs. Slag can be very attractive, but can contain minerals that can make the stone cutters sick. Wearing the finished stone is just fine. Breathing the dust is not advisable.

[@MrInsaint]

Brilliant, just brilliant💎🆒👍👍👍 and Thank You for sharing😁

[@adrianpanopio9431]

Totally in love with Nuummite 😍🙌It’s one of my favorite stones! It’s so hard to source genuine greenland material as most pieces in the market are mislabelled

[@Cengaline]

THANK YOU, I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS CHANNEL FOR SO LONG AND AS A NORWEGIAN THIS MEANS SO MUCH TO ME!!!

[@einienj3281]

I've been to that spectrolite site! Greetings from Finland! ♥️

[@jesperchristiansen7481]

I live in Denmark and I never heard about Glendolite. Very fascinating. Great to learn something new🙂 Here, everyone is going on about Amber. Never actually found a piece myself though.

[@sspiritless7484]

Me too! How I wish I could go crystal hunting in Denmark, but we really don’t have that many options😅

[@charlielmao318]

First! :P Also awesome vid!

[@maggiepie8810]

Amber can be found in southern Sweden as well. An area in Northern Sweden is famous for garnets.

[@drewskifrosty5955]

Completely missed the Finnish Uvarovite Garnets!

[@KrosanBeast315]

Greenland is also home to Tugtupite, a Pink gem that is Tenebrescent, in this case, Reversable Photochroism. The gem will change color when exposed to Sunlight, then go back after several hours in a dark space. Greenland is also home to Kakortokite... a Nepheline Syenite with Eudialyte and Arfvedsonite crystals growing in it.

[@Xtracrispiii]

Larvikite is one of my faves and i believe it's norway's national rock

[@bjjamison2117]

I heard in Finland you can also find rubies Pinkish red types

[@dorakkasunba893]

Flapjack matpat send me🥰

[@eerielconstantine5051]

Oooo Iceland spar is gonna have to be added to my collection

[@thomhansen5298]

There is actually Norwegian emeralds in the British crown jewels!

[@mawa1073]

Have to say i didnt know that North have gemstones too. I got just interesting of gemnstones anything knowledge is interesting. Really pretty too. I mean i have been just started collect 🇫🇮.

[@kittys.2870]

Just installed a labradorite sphere in my staff.

[@patrickkillilea5225]

What? No Red Headed Fish Girls? LOL

[@ericwilliams2546]

Michigan has some of the blue slag under the name Leland Blue stone

[@paigey1995-]

The glendonite looked like brown sugar 😱

[@offyarocka]

WOW some amazing geology over there, sadly this Aussie would die in the cold over there so not on my bucket list hahahahahaha. just for giggles, google translate "speed hump" in Swedish, probably another reason for me not to go over there, Id be in hysterics every time I'd see the signs!!!!

[@Random-World-Eater]

That Ice hotell is in Jokkmokk Sweden, not Finland.....

[@zacwebb5738]

I love discovering the world through the lens of gemology. Rebecca is such a lovely host! Thank you for the great content!

[@Andrrew05]

Oh wow it looks like stain glass. Beautiful stone

[@LostWithoutHer]

I'd like a more in-depth comparison of thulite to ruby as thulite is related to zoisite and zoisite often contains ruby crystals in the matrix yet ruby is colored by chromium and thulite is by manganese. Surprisingly Rhodonite and Rhodochrosite are both colored by manganese yet no comparison is drawn. Thank you! Of course, who wouldn't want to know more about the rubies, emeralds and diamonds, right? Field trip, let's go!

[@helenaziegler6005]

Here in central Italy we have a lot of zeolitized volcanic rocks. Some are made up by 70% of chabazite - a zeolite with high cation exchange capacity - and they make a good food supplement once powdered. May sound weird but they actually have a good taste!

[@Andrrew05]

Every good pillaging😅😂

[@imari2305]

All these gemstone are amazing and beautiful. I would love to see more content on all of them.

[@gonzalogonzalez4857]

Peridots from Aheim. Best in the world

[@bigsnootis3554]

You forgot about larvikite

[@minaer515]

i was so exited to watch this! awesome vision and love from Sweden :)

[@karengarcia8587]

Wow, it's amazing to see and know some of these nordic gemstones.🙎‍♀️😃🇫🇮💎 Each of them are so pretty and unique looking.🤩 It's fascinating to the facts/history📖🤔 about them since some I never heard of before until now. I like them especially the first one from the beginning.😍 Thanks for teaching us about them and nice video.😉👍👩‍🏫💎❄🇫🇮

[@markgarin6355]

But swedish blue isn't a 'stone'.

[@isabellavalencia8026]

It is a stone and when it is cut or finished it becomes a gem

[@seancrisci610]

🔥💖🔥💖🔥💖🔥💖🔥 Everything in this video is Beautiful!

[@jonathanadams6673]

You guys missed some major minerals from this region. Tugtupite! Hello! And the oldest mineral in the world, Greenlandite. Also Greenland is sitting on a volcanic cone apparently? Oh and that huge crater that proves a massive meteorite hit there about 13000 years ago. There is like 5 more worthy of mention but out of time...

[@gems]

Yeah, there are a lot of options for Greenland...but this is already one of our longest videos of its kind. So, we had to limit ourselves. But one day, we really hope to cover Tugtupite in depth.

[@lorawaring883]

wow. So interesting! It makes me want to buy one of everything shown! (hmm parcel???) I was looking at another thing on JTV. A string of Peruvian Opal beads was listed as from China. So now I'm confused! Can you explain that? Or do I need to contact someone at JTV? THanks!

[@twitchyeyess]

Could you do a playlist/series that explains how certain gems form?

[@gems]

We're working on it! Here's Emerald:kzbin.info/www/bejne/bn3dfIGMj9uFaMk & Jade: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqG0oJSPj5WrbtE

[@Berliozboy]

Anyone interested in Iceland Spar and its place in history and science should check out Against The Day by Thomas Pynchon. It clocks in at over a 1000 pages but it introduced me to Iceland Spar...so how can I not love it?

[@viniciusleal3562]

this nuumite with pirite is nuumite too ? I read on a website that the true nuumites were only those that contain iridescence, and this other one containing as if they were golden dots or a color that resembles rose gold at times since it is a shade sometimes slightly reddish false

[@reikiwithcary2682]

So COOL!

[@salikkielsen2700]

Amazing you put Nuummite for Greenland. There is also Tugtupite from south Greenland

[@dragonfox2.058]

You kept showing Labradorite not Spectrolite...only the first example was Spectrolite. Spect has a very dark/black background

[@nikoknightpuppetproduction369]

In Norway they have the beautiful Larvikite.

[@Chill1332]

I love this sort of thing! What a fun bit of info and some neat new stones I hadn't heard of before! Educational and so beautiful!

[@lordalexandermalcolmguy6971]

Would love to see northern ireland gems

[@nostalgicshark3]

I would like to see a video on more stuff created from volcanoes our lava our magma. all I know of is obsidian, Which is my favorite.

[@Karina-ou9ud]

Me who puts 1000ml of water 2500mg of sugar And mixes them on a stick resistant [it got so sticky] and put them in a gar and a clean pebble at the bottom them sealed the jar tight Gemstone experts:keep dreaming

[@hannagyllensten475]

For some reason the comment I wanted to put (when this was first posted) is not here, just wanted to add a suggestion to check out the old mining town of Långban in Sweden (close to the big lakes in the south). The place where most new mineral types have been found, if I've understod it right.

[@KrosanBeast315]

Nuummite was also found in Mauritania in 2009. Under the trade name Jenakite... it has Golden, Green, and Blue needles of Anthophyllite. It is easily distinguishable from Nuummite found in Greenland. I have 3 faceted pieces of Jenakite.

[@Ayyywrimzy]

I have Dogtag Pendant with Widmanstätten pattern Made from Muonionalusta Meteorite weighing 14 grams only found in Sweden and Finland glacier border

[@gems]

Love the muonionalusta pieces…we even tried to etch our own m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5SwZKiGrcmirMU

[@jimmyringbom9622]

I have found much more in our country Sweden ! Such as Citrine chrystals and amethyst in big clusters and have a lots of them at home and even emeralds and aquamarine and a lots of garnets ! and of course much of the slagstone as you call the swedish blue ! and even 3 locations i digging opals in ! here in Sweden and big smokey quarts

[@cryforthemoon]

Love thulite

[@gems]

Me too!

[@Violet-qf8dr]

I got a ring from a friend for Christmas a few years ago. She said it was a stone from Norway. Turns out that it's thulite.

[@countryroadtropicalgarden7863]

beautiful video and good presentation, thank.

[@techgaming1237]

We also found gem stone in river and at that time that stone is lightning but now we don’t see lightning in that stone don’t know why..

[@johnmcdonald9112]

that spectrolite reminded me of Titanium or Timascus, I think its a pretty cool metal

[@dahlonegaprospector7012]

The " rose stone" looks like a everlasting gobbstopper

[@filipisandre]

lmao i cant believe sweden got represented by slag in this video…. so much more interesting stuff here

[@rehsifyecrad3436]

Norwegian anatase is definitely a highlight for me.

[@deandeann1541]

The Finnish like Popeye! ("Cause he's good to the Finnish when he eats his spinach).

[@saleebanaxmedorshe9322]

Thanks your explaining but I have a missile somalia sool

[@johnmorgan1483]

Next time we meet up, don't be afraid of me. Try not to get an application at a hotel Front desk.

[@a.r.moyapapitawaira7369]

Carisma y buena información 👍

[@FunTimeAll2sand5s]

More nuummit🌈🦄🐱

[@kittys.2870]

Swedish iron worker making a troll charm.

[@leiferiklund4621]

We are the vikings!!!! Norway .

[@cerberaodollam]

Geez Louise, you could've left out that leftist stuff.

[@PatriceBoivin]

So Finland uses Labradorite like Canada where Labrador is.

[@PeterHAdams]

Tugtupite is a pink rock from Greenland that fluoresces some amazing ruby colors.

[@guntherrobbert4406]

That's correct. I think Tugtupite was the stone she forgot to mention. And embedded in it's black and white matrix being polished it sometimes forms amazing and very esthetic structures. As far as I understood it has only been found in Greenland. (?)

[@VanityVixen]

I really hope yall see this! I am absolutely stuck on what stone this is that a seller is selling. He claims it's one thing but I know it's not but idk for sure. Is there any way to contact yall to give yall pics and videos and maybe yall can help me?

[@gems]

As you can imagine, our team gets super busy with different projects, so we may not have a chance to really spend the time necessary to delve into this. But you can always e-mail us at [e-mail] and see!

[@kiro9291]

wow that swedish blue is so pretty

[@Iraborn]

From Greenland is tugtupite. So fluorescent that it can react to sunlight which will intensify its pink color. I had a wonderful cabochon which a clumsy jeweler managed to drop and break on a tile floor. I never was able to replace it.

[@gems]

Oh no!

[@heinzrieger6097]

I have missed Tugtupit.

[@heathervannatter364]

So cool!! In Michigan we had Leland blue, slag rock from the iron ore smelting as well. It's very rare but zeolite has also been found here. Neato

[@drewskifrosty5955]

Zeolite is a mineral group not a single mineral. Several zeolite minerals have been found in the US.

[@gems]

Yes! We saw the Michigan material when we were researching the Swedish. Many really cool rocks and gems in Michigan.

[@heathervannatter364]

@@gems some amazing finds on the shores of the great lakes!! I'd like to take a closer look.... Hahaha Michigan rocks!!

[@heathervannatter364]

@@drewskifrosty5955 thanks.

[@amirabdelaziz4427]

Super episode, I loved it.

nice video

[@msdash9305]

Great content! Thanks 😊

[@griziol]

Love the puns😂😁❤❤

[@saleebanaxmedorshe9322]

I have good lunar somalia sool

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Thanks Rebecca. Some amazing and beautiful Nordic specimens there. Maybe you could get a Spectrolite cousin for your Boardroom Labradorite table then. 😀 Thank you for sharing.

[@thundermind5572]

Greetings, been a viewer of the show for a while since I stumbled apon a glacial till creek wall full of many types of crystal cheddar. This one find different than all others. Its like the Enigma's rounded little brother coming in at 122 k,s. The hardness tester lit ip like a Chistmas tree and sounded with a desperation that would pucker up the Terminator. From distance it appears black. Up close its dark grayish with flashes of fire. Its opaque and clear in spots. Up to a light its like veins of dark carbon almost like an eye. I'm dumb as a rock. Oops, lol. I'm in a bit of a quandary as to submission or professional verification and certification. Thanks for your input. Have a lovely day.

[@Mintus775]

Thank you for your work !

[@v.s.4553]

Denmaaaaaarrrkkk. I work at a museum where we have Denmarks biggest Glendonite crystal, Denmarks biggest petrified tree aaaand one of the best sea turtle fossils in the world. It is the Fossil and Moler (moclay) museum on Mors

[@puresas]

Great episode, loved it

[@PalomaVita]

Isn't Labradorite classified as a kind of Spectralite? Along with Rainbow Moonstone... and if so, it is also found in the province of Labrador, in Canada. I have a few pieces and I love this stone so much!

[@MrJonashjensen]

silkspar in denmark

[@TroyJamesMonger]

This was fun, Rebecca :] The editing was on point. I love the slag stone, what a wonderful use of what would otherwise be waste!

[@paulbarlow9907]

thule was shetland

[@praywithpio6028]

😆Start with the Finnish ! The channel has quickly become a favorite.

[@mittvarupptaget]

hand warmers?

[@sazssexigs2140]

Samphires

[@reginaldhorkyiiregorreggie1559]

I have tons of flawless crystal-clear calcite. some large ones too. who knows how to fascist calcite without breaking them? I mean just trying to put a little window into a 8 x3 x 2 crystal it cracked in half. some of them have rainbow like inclusions. it's some really beautiful stuff. pertaining to the art side it is fun to acid etch the pavilion side of the stones. the acid even leaves a polish. I have a shoe box full just waiting on the know-how.

[@peopii]

please do slavic stones next!! so many countries in that category !!

[@michaeltrudell9356]

Spectrolite is a beautiful stone. The books don't do justice to it.