All About Phenomenal Gemstones: Star Sapphire, Labradorite, More!

[@1COMIXMAN]

Years ago when I was a kid my mom was a rock hound. She collected pretty rocks and gemstones. One of our good friends had a pile of rocks in his back yard well he made an entrance to his private driveway with cacti and other dry climate plants. This was southern california. He ringed the plant beds with the rocks that ranged from softball to basketball sized at the enteance. There was some pretty petrified wood also mixed in. But this one powdery rock that looked like any normal quartz rock interested my mom and she asked if she got him an equal sized rock could they swap? He said sure no prob. We had that rock setting in our backyard for years. One day my dad needed to try a new rock grinding wheel for his sanding matching and just shaved a like a hair th I layer and it uncovered dark sorts of varying sized. Reminded me of chocolate chips since they were round. Mom saw this got curious and told me lets break it open see what it is. So me and mom using hammers and chiseled beating on this thing finally broken into y pieces. turns out it was filled with garnets. From the size of peas to the size of limes.We ended up using my dads disc to grind away alot of that and had about 75 garnets in total. The big ones we got were clear as day when you held em up to a light. Would have made huge cut stones but mom didn't want to ruin the beauty of nature so we tumbled a few gave a few away but most were left in raw form.

[@hateonskillz318]

Such a great story my grandma and aunt used to be the same we traveled and they picked up a rock of to unique looking from where we live so we had a few rocks. Even lava rocks from Hawaii lol thanks for sharing brought back memories for me thanks. I needed it when I did too.

[@Danae78]

😍😍

[@deborahspurgeon575]

So awesome

[@MonicaRodriguez-ln5iw]

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[@vcvcvc9216]

This is such a sweet story thanks

[@oscarmedina1303]

What a great episode. It inspired me to create a collection of stones and gems with optical effects. Thank you!

[@niuboi_]

I really like these two doing unboxings together.

[@nikolaybondarev7407]

I dont

[@Nick-dx2pt]

​@@nikolaybondarev7407 okay then don't watch it 🤡

[@josephbiggica939]

People don't know how truly important gem and stones are.....they bring light ...so they help bring the 🌞 sun to earth....

[@brittanikinch395]

The last one reminds me of the stars you would stick on your ceilings as kids hahaha so fun!!

[@libertyann439]

I've never seen a cut faceted fluorite before. Amazing!

[@kaliarular6360]

I Am Currently Working On A Gems Jewellery Collection. The Excitement Of Finding Gems 💎 Is Universal. And So Much To Learn. Love These Vids.

[@chimmylights7323]

I love optical phenomenons. It’s my fave when it comes to bead bracelets

[@icatz]

Should've used Aussie opal for opalescence and phosphorescence. Shine UV on precious opal in the dark, then when you turn the light off you get a pale greenish phosphorescence for a few seconds. This only works on precious Australian opal. It's a good indicator.

[@jameswelch1054]

I agree. I also would of loved to of seen black opal.

[@Danae78]

Is that a natural occurrence? It's not man made?

[@icatz]

@@Danae78 Natural

[@emilyivyfoster]

that's so cool!

[@KrosanBeast315]

Opalescence isn't a Phenomenon according to the G.I.A. Play-of-Color is the only Phenomenon associated with Opal.

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

THEY'RE ALL BEAUTIFUL.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Wow, all beautiful specimens there. It’s very difficult to choose a favourite as they all have unique properties. I’m going to go with the Labradorite, as it’s amazing, affordable & I think it deserves a lot more consideration as a semi precious gemstone.

[@Danae78]

I'd stare for hours at a huge chunk like that! 😍 😘👌 I want one

[@jac4YouTube]

It looks like a giant shell actually

[@lolareh8756]

@@jac4KZbin I agree with you... it can look very "abalone-esque," one of my all time favorites. I also have a Labradorite necklace purchased in Maine many years ago, which I call my "poor girl"s opal". Opal is my birthstone, but I could never ever afford an opal the same size ... .😃

[@nodanceswithwolves8425]

I love Labradorite! Opal is still my favorite, but Fluorite and Labradorite run a close second.

[@vickinoble4744]

I NEED Afghanite!!! Labradorite and Opal are two of my favorites (my top favorite being Alexandrite). Now I have found a new one to add to my faves!

[@justingsteele]

I love your channel! You guys do a great service and work great together to make it fun and interesting! Thank you!

[@HerMajesty5]

More deliciousness! Would love to see a black opal and Boulder opal specimens! ❤

[@jaredharris1940]

Allout astounding!

[@kamalchopra4150]

Thanks for teaching in such a play way manner

[@gems]

You're welcome!

[@t400ml]

That's one hell of a Flourite gemstone.

[@debbiebatten6088]

The opal is my favourite. Gorgeous.

[@markmatthews2391]

Star sapphire has a special meaning for me when my dad deployed Nad bought a good amount of them

[@patriciaroysdon9540]

Right now, I am in love with two diaspore rings that my husband got me for Christmas. The various color changes they have with different light is amazing! It varies from a pretty champagne to greens to oranges and even reddish. So cool.

[@theunluckyrabbit1440]

I'm so happy I discovered this channel. I've only watched one other video but I'm subscribing! Keep up the awesome content!

[@TaneKarnes]

Love seeing some of these minerals under a microscope. The micro-crystaline structures are incredible. Montana Rock Mom, she sometimes looks at fresh cut rocks.

[@skymeadow7762]

I have been wearing a big piece of laboradite for two months, my pain levels way down, and a deep sense of Peace

[@jennifermillott3737]

I'm from Alberta, Canada so my heart will always be with Ammolite and Labradorite

[@peterchesko9537]

Thanks for your wonderful productions! One other phenomenon is "Tenebrescence". I have a faceted oval that reacts dramatically. initially it fluoresces a wild pink color and then it stays in the purple range on it's own for quite some time. Another goodie from Afghanistan.

[@RM-vw3ov]

Super fun teaching video. Thank you! I loved the night stone-a new synthetic for me.

[@gems]

Glad you enjoyed it! We're all a little envious of Claire's night stone.

[@egypt9723]

My favs are Labradorite & Moonstone crystals✌☺👍

[@christinaloveday4411]

Great video!!! You guys are so informative and fun to watch. Hmm the only other one I can think of that wasn’t mentioned is Iris agate 😍

[@milesnn]

Wow awesome video very entertaining and knowledgeable,beautiful and very sweet specimens excellent presentation, opal is a good choice but is commonly seen now the other is mysterious in a way and so cool so I would choose cats eye , thank you.

[@raquelnunes9793]

Opas are just….. chefs kiss

[@bradhernandez1386]

I love your videos!!! How about tenebrescence? Like Hackmanite.

[@BH-lp1vk]

Another great video-thanks! I would love to learn more about garden quartz.

[@karengarcia8587]

Whoa, those gemstones phosporescence are so beautiful and shiny.😯💎 It's so fascinating on how they get those shiny colors and the structure of them.🤔📙 It's hard to choose, I like them all.Thanks for teaching us about these gems even ones that I never heard of. Nice video.👨‍🏫💎

[@ZephyrinSkies]

I love your content and enthusiasm. It feels like a niche just for well-presented information on gems that isn't riddled with inaccuracies. So many gem and jewelry sellers mislabel their wares all the time, and a lot of times it's hard to know what's a label given for marketing and what's the real name. Iridescent gems are the best. I have a bias to moonstone, good specimens with vivid flashes are magical. Opals are gorgeous but so fragile and sensitive to moisture levels.

[@a.kitcat.b]

I didn't know the names of these types of phenomenon until this video! Im glad you guys went over them!

[@namelessgrace6319]

Oregon Sunstone is such a beautiful gem, definitely one of America's best! Next to Bixbite. ♥️

[@therealnancycarol]

Wow, I love so many of them! My first is always opal. Labradorite, moonstones, stars and tiger's eye are all beautiful as are all of the stones you show. There is so much information on these videos How do you remember all of this? Great video. Thanks! 💕💕💕

[@godnoble]

You've never heard of anyone learning to speak Swiss because it doesn't exist. They speak French, German, and Italian. So it isn't weird at all that a mountain in Switzerland would have an Italian name.

[@misschatoyance]

I absolutely love this as my nickname among my rock/gem friends is "Miss Chatoyance"! I have a love for the physics of light and how it interplays with all of my favorite stones. I think the only example I don't have in my collections is phosphorescence. 😅 I always love taking a deeper dive into the stones and learning more about what makes their beauty so remarkable. Thank you for the amazing content!

[@larrytischler570]

I have a jade cat's eye. Do the star sapphires make so many rays without Be treatment? In the Gulf of Mexico we have a lot of jellyfish that emit light at night if they are shaken. That can be frightening if you are alone and a glob of seaweed with hidden jelleys tangles up your fishing line when you try to free it.

[@wizard44]

That insane Sillimanite catseye with those 3 kaleidoscoping lines! Definitely my pick for this video.

[@janboyle3130]

Favorite is the Star Sapphire and second choice if I may, is the alexandrite. Thanks

[@adelehill7088]

That little green one that you have I found a bunch of bigger ones in my backyard because there's River Rock in my backyard so I've been searching through the rocks LOL I got a lot of good rocks out of my backyard 😊

[@merwalkure1853]

I love the video. That night stone was awesome.

[@jessicawood421]

You said labradorite is also known as spectrolite, but I was under the impression that spectrolite is specific to a source in (i believe) Finland?

[@coreygibson1467]

I live opal both as a jeweller and opal miner in Lightning Ridge, Australia Awesome channel loving it.

[@nolans5371]

I wish that Rainbow iridescent garnets were included in this video or that you could make one on them

[@lorawaring883]

Labradorite is the rock version of puff pastry, with all those laminations

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Titanium Druzy Cabochon is a nice stone that you could have included. There are painted or natural I believe.

[@jecibelprado7697]

Good evening GEMSTONE GOD BLESS YOU and I'm watching your video from Antique Philippines

[@annakeye]

It's interesting how much ammolite behaves like the play of colour of some opal. Interestingly, I have, an opalised ammonite and you can find them quite readily.

[@Marcanevello]

Interesting phosphorescence. Have you ever seen any natural white diamond with phosphorescence? I actually discovered a small diamond with this feature.

[@allanahbanana3976]

This chick knows everything! I’m in awe

[@1.4142]

Is phosphorescence just slower emitting fluorescence?

[@americanrebel413]

This was cool, thank you.

[@IsaiahErickson-b8d]

I love tigers eye because of the three color red , yellow and blue it comes in.

[@jac4YouTube]

I love the tigers eye effect, but the others are cool too

[@ROCKINWHEELERS]

MATRIX - WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTT! ON A SERIOUS NOTE, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR BLESSING WITH US. GOD BLESS!!!

[@Sheikyerbouti8]

You missed my two favorites. Diasterism, and tenebrescence.

[@dheeraj3945]

This video is super fun

[@juntoemisturado1]

Amo todas as gemas ❤️🇧🇷

[@KrogTharr]

Tamo junto 🇧🇷

[@matthewg3374]

I’ve read that all star sapphires are unheated because heating the sapphires would melt the rutile inclusions that are giving it the effect thus removing the effect. Is this incorrect? Because she said that they often heat star sapphires to bring out the star..

[@GREEKEXPLORERS]

Nice video!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@gems]

Thanks for watching!

[@themostgems]

Good stuff - Wishes from Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

[@sorayaalencar5167]

Gostaria que esse canal fosse traduzido para o português do Brasil

[@ironkh615]

Very nice admin!

[@tommunyon2874]

My wife gave me a natural black star sapphire ring that she had made for me by 'her' Hong Kong jeweler.

[@triangleman100]

You guys *need* to do a profile on Star Garnet! I cut Idaho Star Garnets.... and I can honestly say- it is the most- beautiful of the Asteristic gems... not to mention its one-of-a-kind electric Purple body-tone.

[@gems]

Would love to! Send us some!

[@summ3rsky]

Awesome

[@rcsop]

Did you know selenite is Phosphorescent I learned that one year ago when I was nine when I shined a UV light on a desert rose

[@SierraFlorez-m8d]

Very cool.

[@kalimantangemstone]

Good video

[@phoenixkb134]

Opals are among some of the ultimate optical phenomena... especially Fire Opal.

[@Skyygems]

Have you covered the properties of Purpurite yet?

[@derskalde4973]

I own a big labradorite (like Medaillon sized), that looks like it displays a map.

[@emilianoorona9890]

I liked this for the super smash brothers😍

[@rogerballoujr.6244]

All these optical effects are amazing, although if I am honest, I prefer the natural ones to the synthetic... Star Sapphires are my favorite and I admit I am envious of people who have claims they can find them on.

[@Danae78]

Labradorite all the way babyyyyyy!!

[@jstralis7277]

Love the video! 🤩🥰💎🇸🇪

[@BandMomRaeRae]

I have a diamond in my wedding band that phosphoresces as well as a few that flouresces.

[@SimpyStarr]

I have some pieces of blue chalcedony and they turn yellow whenever a light behind the stone. Is this normal?

[@kayleygreen-tooney8860]

Hello! This video was amazing, and is making me think of a rock that was given to me called "ye ming zhu". I'm not entirely sure how to tell if it's man made or not but it's hard to determine online what to look for. Do you have any reccomendations? I beleive it can be man made and naturally form in caves underground but im not sure if that's true or not... do you know any more about this rocks formation?/ can point me in a direction to read? Thank you!

[@philllyttle440]

Hi love ur channel. I've be trying to get my birthstone ALEXANDRITE. It seems to be out of my reach. How can I get just a small piece so I'll have something to carry down to my daughter and she carry to hers and so forth.

[@janetfournier4067]

My daughter was learning to drive gave me time to look around .lolI yelled STOP I SEE A ROCK she still love me NoW SHe Came Home from Camping bring me a bucket full of rocks, she's hooked

[@coreymerrill3257]

So I have a 1 CT harlequin rough dark opal by your definition. It has geometric patches of all colors . Happy to show it if youd like to see. It has a small square of potch in the face , equal in size to the color zones. It's a natural round bottom almost pyramid, I may just make it more symmetrical and polish . Australian opal is my favorite. Does fluorite have anything to do with dental liquid fluoride?Isn't fluoride a byproduct of smelting aluminum? Are they associated minerals?

[@gems]

Fluorite has the mineral fluoride in it. Sodium fluoride is used in toothpaste. Fluorite is often used as a flux in the smelting of aluminum.

[@karenathena33]

Can you do a video on cat's eye, especially cat's eye scapolite?

[@kentasims]

The triple cats eye caught my eye

[@shawncola123]

So is fire a type of iridescence? Or is it another word for iridescence?

[@ZaDussault]

I have a rock labeled as fluorite, but as I see this video, I'm pretty sure it actually is a moonstone. wierd! It's 100% transparent on one side, but with a little angle, there's a dark blue sheen. I have another that was sold with it with a green and a purple-ish lines inside too. Would the main difference be that the fluorite would be fluorescent?

[@1.4142]

Others fun ones are ulexite and double refraction in calcite.

[@farooghjewelry798]

faroogh jewelry supplier of all kind of precious gems all over the world

[@liamjames5470]

Now of course these are for wearing but I have two pairs of really cool stone plugs. My tigers eye they are yellow tigers eye. I haven’t been able to wear them yet which makes me a bit upset but they are really cool to just look at in the light

[@Streleny]

Is there any crystal u can use like light bulb?

[@thomaswu1412]

Is it absolutely necessary to cut a star sapphire as a domed cabochon? Have there ever been attempts to display a star in a faceted cabochon? What would happen if you tried to recut a domed star sapphire cabochon as a faceted cabochon?

[@mjade1673]

Fluorite was used for metal melting?

[@hybridgoth]

There's really only a couple of other optical effects worth noting in my opinion and they would be the Usambara effect and the Tyndall effect. Other phenomena like tenebrescence aren't so easy to show in a video so I understand why you skipped that one, similarly the effects of gems producing light when struck or electrically charged aren't really selling points for gemstones so similarly I understand why you didn't go down that road. Come to think of it they're more akin to physical attributes than optical phenomena anyway. Personally I really like the Usambara effect though due to the rarity of gems that embody it I don't actually have any gems in my collection that exhibit it. P.S. it would have been nice if you had mentioned the differences between diasterism and epiasterism but either way there was plenty of good information for your viewers.

[@jessicawood421]

I heard that goldstone was the accidental product of a monk who was trying to make gold lol. But now that you’ve said it was made to mimic sunstone, I realize that for a monk to be using alchemy in attempt to create gold would be something from centuries ago-I believe that’s a little too far back for man-made gemstones lol

[@michellego8214]

i have star ruby and star sapphire jewelry. im looking for cats eye pendant but all i can see recently is ring which i have a lot already....

[@coreymerrill3257]

Now is gemstones as a new company seperate from jtv or is it replacing jtv? Sorry if it is a sore subject for whatever reason , I just need to know where to direct my money when it is time to purchase something .

[@gems]

Not a sore subject at all! We're still close with JTV, it's just that Gemstones.com is an opportunity to put the focus solely on gems and gemology education. Gemstones.com is a site all about content, and you can find gems and minerals to purchase at our gemstones.com storefront on the Jedora marketplace: www.jedora.com/stores/gemstones-com/S7KRNLJF

[@sandraanzer]

In fact Italian is one of the three official languages in Switzerland ☺️