All About Sunstone: Unboxing Rough and Fantasy Cuts

[@cathydrums2846]

This was awesome! And yes, I would love to see an episode on Moonstone!

[@rataretrodos]

me too

[@christinaloveday4411]

Yes please, I’d love to see a video on Moonstone!! 🌙 Loved this video, thanks guys, you’re amazing!

[@victoriaruth821]

Those were soooooo cool!!!!! I love all the different cuts!

[@lorawaring883]

So pretty!!! Very cool. Thanks

[@hollychiron]

Great job guys! I enjoyed the variety of Sunstone feldspars from around the world. We all learn so much, giving us a greater appreciation and connection to our earth. I can't stop thinking about the discovery and uses of Sunstone by the indigenous peoples of the world. The same for moonstone. Please do make a video about Moonstone! I read there are beautiful ones in PA. Thank you for your hard work!

[@catienoble3191]

Yes, please do an episode on moonstone! I would love to explore all the different varieties of it!

[@Nervii_Champion]

Feldspars are some of the most beautiful gems out there, in my opinion. I like black meteor shower sunstone the most.

[@michelemurphy3541]

Awesome! Yes, moonstone please! I have a strand of moonstone that looks like there is sunstone mixed in…would love to hear about moonstone from you awesome professionals as to do a comparison as I figure out more and more, what stones I have and more about the stones I make jewelry with. I love this channel so much! So full of fantastic information and you guys are always 100% a pure delight! Thank you!

[@gems]

Thank you!!!

[@alexandervidal-baquero9176]

What a great video 😀! I will love to watch a video about moonstone!

[@oscarmedina1303]

What a fantastic episode. Love Oregon Sunstones. Looking forward to digging for some myself. Would love an episode on Moonstone. Thank you!

[@michaeltrudell9356]

Those are some pretty gems🙂

[@RockHoundingAdventures]

I love those faceted stones. Super cool. Thanks for sharing

[@Clarion11]

Love it! I have some Oregon sunstone rough that was being mined during the solar eclipse a few years years ago! Also a nice variety of faceted pieces. Would love to see some moonstone!

[@ResortDog]

Saturday morning at 9, October 24th, 2023 annular eclipse!

[@jamiecurran3544]

The closer look at the Indian one reminds me of fish scales!, I definitely love the fantasy cut one's especially the smokey coloured one!🤩💜✌️

[@kits411UK]

I actually have a carved heart that is half sunstone and half moonstone in the schiller. It's definitely Indian as it has the white host rock weaving throughout, but it's one I pick up all the time just to look at it. I'd love to know: how does that happen?

[@Mqko]

Btw- Thank you for uploading so regularly 😌🫶

[@gems]

We try our best!

[@IndusRiverRock]

Very beautiful sharing 😊

[@jg5930]

Beautiful! 😊 Thanks ❤.

[@joyplanta2402]

Tnx for this Sunstone episode! Moonstone yes please. I love rainbow blue ones from Bihar, India

[@dilaybilgili1527]

Moonstone! Yey!🤩

[@loompy1440]

This was fun for me to watch because I already have a dozen ish pieces of sunstone that I’ve bought and found in Idaho and Oregon. It can be hard to tell for sure when the aventurescense /Schiller effect isn’t highly obvious. There’s also included quartz/ chalcedony that can look vaguely like it. Apparently I have some Tanzanian cut ones already too. My collecting without labels is getting out of hand, but thank you for helping to clear some things up.

[@lissetteflores4469]

Yes 🙏 moonstone please! And i know a beads episode 😅 Love your work

[@nickalouscromer9082]

You should also talk about Eclipse Stone (Silver Feldspar) at some point

[@largent45]

I love sunstone! I have some tazanian sunstones that are called confetti sunstone because they look like they contain glitter but they are all natural, and gorgeous. I also have ine black confetti sunstone that is gorgeous! But those that you showed are gorgeous as well. I love oregon sunstone, and not just because i live in oregon. They have that copper schiller and can be anywhere from green to red to pink! They can even come in clear and even the clwar is slightly tan but the stones facet so beautifully. Thank you for this episode! It has ro be ine of my favorite gemstones!

[@sangremagnetica]

I would LOVE a moonstone video

[@sherrizanoli1398]

Beautiful specimens. I do like Sunstone and have 5 or 6 set stones. All rings. Would you do Indian Ruby and Sapphires? They are stunning, but different.

[@misshollyannh6773]

I love to see a moonstone video, please. 😊

[@elizabethlovejoy8529]

I love sunstone😊

[@rataretrodos]

question... can the copper oxidize in the oregon sunstone? making it turn either more green or red?... i know its difficult for air to get into the stone... but... i was just wondering...

[@gems]

It often does oxidize during formation, but it sounds like you are asking if it can continue to oxidize now? We haven’t seen that but I suppose under unusual conditions such a thing may be possible

[@davidariamirroarkyoung]

My two favorite gems were iolite, and sunstone, both can have the mica and hematite inclusions. Iolite with the mica and hematite inclusions has been referred to as sunstone iolite. In 2009 a new discovery was made at a mine in India it is where iolite and sunstone are intergrown, if you cut in pieces some would be iolite and some sunstone, this new discovery is known as Iolite Sunstone, not to be confused with Sunstone Iolite (the mica and hematite included Iolite). This is changing the vocabulary to where the term Sunstone Iolite is not being used by many and used by others marketing it like the more expensive discovered gem mix found in India. Now I still have my favorite gemstone is Iolite then Sunstone then Tanzanite and finally Iolite Sunstone. I do have a couple pieces of the new gemstone and is fantastic mixing the two gems I just love them independent of each other a little more but it is extremely close and is astonishing to see this in person, Iolite Sunstone Tanzanite and Iolite Sunstone all are not lab created and can't be reproduced in laboratory's. They are gems that currently mother nature can create that man can't also all are dichroic (actually many natural display three colors not just two) and can display chatoyance adventuresence asterism they are amazing gems with amazing phenomenon available.

[@guntherrobbert4406]

Very Interesting indeed! In particular seeing these incredible colour variations of the Oregon suntone. But would you also be able to say something about this absolutly fascinating australien rainbow lattice sunstone. I have previously seen a short documentory on it but came never anywhere across it - at least so far.

[@gems]

We can do a bit better than say something about. How about if we interview the guy who discovered it and he brings with him the biggest piece he ever found? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHfTfZWFhL6pl8U

[@victorreis8110]

Hello 😄 What makes for a museum grade piece, in terms of gemstones and more broad mineral specimens? Great video as always❤️ Since I grasped what appears to have been an amicable disagreement there regarding Goldstone origins, thought I’d share this bit from Wikipedia illustrating you’re probably both right ✨ “One original manufacturing process for goldstone was invented in seventeenth-century Venice by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge [citation pending]. Urban legend says goldstone was an accidental discovery by unspecified Italian monks or the product of alchemy, but there is no pre-Miotti documentation to confirm this. A goldstone amulet from 12th- to 13th-century Persia in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania shows that other, earlier artisans were also able to create the material.”

[@Nervii_Champion]

2:08 I wish that piece of rough was mine. I wouldn't even cut it, I would just remove the cracked material off of it and give it a slight polishing

[@glennpallast3131]

taaffeite and padparadscha are two Gems that I was wondering if you have seen or considered doing a video?

[@maria39866]

I've had lattice Sunstone on my want list for sooooooo long. Just can't find it in my budget 😢

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Bring on the Moonstone 🙂

[@seancrisci610]

MAGIC STONES🎆

[@spaceshot5289]

Can you do a show on Alexandrite ?

[@TheGreeneBead]

If you do Moonstone, you *HAVE TO* include Wisconsin Moonstone!

[@aaronh1372]

"American" sunstone can include New Mexico sunstone. I promise, NM is in the U.S., the big empty space between TX and AZ. We have so many rocks here, many of them pretty rare (i.e. bixbite). I would love to see a video about NM. Baker Eggs would be a good start. Ain't no egg like a Baker egg. IYKYK

[@SpoodyFlopp]

Moonstone would be cool for a video, but I think everyone would agree that a video on asterisms is even better

[@gems]

Stay tuned!

[@juiceymoojuice]

Look up Rainbow Lattice Sunstone, found in only one part of the world in Australia

[@gems]

Look it up? We did a whole video on it with the man who discovered it! But it’s technically not a sunstone.

[@WalkingMoments]

so whats your top 3 favourite gemstones?

[@jasonbaldauf9394]

Moonstone please!

[@shamiaasmrgaming1508]

Oh yeah in the coloured diamonds video you forgot one diamond purple can you please tell us about purple diamonds Im eagered to know

[@mikeymyers4744]

Wish i could get one of you two to meet me or the owner of this program..i know where theres something that is soooo big and beautiful it will blow your mind😊 i cant move it because of the size of it😂

[@stevenmclaughlin1834]

What about black sunstone ?

[@Carpathice]

I thought the stone that kinda looks like a clock, also looks like the sun or a star

[@beartutor3377]

GUUUYYS MOISSANITE FOR WHEEEEEN

[@cherylj7460]

I’ve noticed lately, jewelers calling this American Sunstone.

[@WinningMann-dx5oy]

I have some gem stones that I would like to get verified

[@GeraldBlack1]

Too bad Sunstones can't give them a tan lol!

[@spocker22]

Bring back natalie!!!!

[@CopingContinuous]

Anyone here because of One Piece?