Rockhounding Amazing SUNSTONE And MOONSTONE!! Winter 2021
Rockhounding Amazing SUNSTONE And MOONSTONE!! Winter 2021
In this video I go to one of my favorite spots for sunstone and moonstone, I’ve been coming back here since i was about 14 years old. I cant wait to go back there this summer to find some more and hopefully find some bigger and better pieces, Thank you all for 300 subs!! 400’s right around the corner!!
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I have since streak tested and tested the hardness of the metallic mineral, the red-brown streak and hardness being harder than steel indicates hematite. There is still lots for me to learn when it comes to metallic minerals and i am learning as I go. Thank you all for following me on this adventure!!
3:15 a streak and hardness test are key there. Moly (molybdenum is the metal, molybdenite is the sulfide) is very soft. I’ve seen a similar material, but it was ridiculously hard. Turned out to be ilmenite.
Feldspar is far more complicated than most people I see on YouTube talking about it say it is.
Feldspar gemstones can be made up of multiple layers of sub-species of Feldspar. You can have Oligoclase and Plagioclase and Microcline all combined and you get a stronger or weaker schiller effect depending on the layers and the thickness of the different types of Feldspar layers stacked on top of each other. I can go on and on about Feldspars but yeah, I see a lot of misinformation on almost every video where people are talking about Feldspar gems.
I’ve always assumed you can only find sunstones in Plush, Oregon. Good to know & great video.
7:18 that is a good one right there, that is a Moonstone, possibly with some pinfire hematite inclusions. Pretty sure it is a Plagioclase dominant Feldspar, too.
Nice finds right across the border
what general area of bc is it if you dont mind?
every time you put your hands into that cold water, my hands and knees started to ache from the times i used to do that when i was a whole lot younger and able to get around better,,, yup those are beautiful treasures you found and shared with us!! thank you for taking us along and sharing
Beautiful finds great job
I love the way you label everything you find and talk about the geology of the area. I’m learning a lot!
Very nice video! Both moon stone and sun stone are so mysterious and beautiful. Unakite, it was really beautiful too. Thank you!
Very good collecting today for you.
My hands just cringe at the thought of you reaching into that cold water!
Have a great day.
Oh yeah, I *did* check this out already! I agree, what you have is similar to rainbow lattice! So cool!
is that piss bubbles
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks. That moonstone was beautiful. You find so many cool places that most people wouldn’t think to look. It shows that you must put a lot of time and effort into researching.
Thanks for showing the pin fire in the stones, it’s beautiful!
Gorgeous pieces…. such beautiful country. Thanks for sharing.
All I can find here is grey and white moonstone. Most of it isn’t even clear it’s full of cracks and the cracks are brown.
This was VERY cool to see! I wish I had more definitive information for you about what’s going on to generate that ‘pinfire’. I’ve found it in Ontario as well, though yours is more translucent. Mine is a kind of brownish-pink, and is at best opaque to slightly translucent. Yours is like half way between mine and that transparent Australian rainbow lattice. While I’m not sure for *sure* that the fire is inclusions and not an optical property of antiperthitic feldspar (I’m still waiting on electron microscopy results from samples I submitted to the university here), if they *are* inclusions (which for sure *some* of them are, I’ve got magnetite in a couple pieces) they may be formed along a ‘crystallization front’ while the feldspar solidifies, which would explain the inclusions following the orientation of the lattice planes.
In my experience, pinfire takes a wonderful polish in the tumbler. What you were finding looked more than competent enough to survive. Just remember, feldspar has cleavage, so it’s better to overfill the barrel a little bit than have the pieces falling into each other. Also, I find I get better results using a ham&chis to break it along cleavage planes instead of trying to cut it on the saw.
Here’s a video of me breaking up a big, broken crystal to tumble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6FurAPpmKo
Here’s a look at some of it polished. You can see the schiller in mine is pure white (any blue is not blue schiller, but actually blue light). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feZfTogLQbw
Here’s a look at one of may favourite intact crystals of this stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqvya56UQ6U
Are u dropping those stones there urself?
Very nice! Haven’t seen anyone rock hound for sunstone in BC before.
MOLY IT WOULD SEEM AT 3:16
I love the pink stones!
I wish I lived close to areas to find moonstone or opal maybe. Cool stuff..
Cool finds man, you have to get to Plush.