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

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.

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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.

I really like these two doing unboxings together.

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

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

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

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

That's one hell of a Flourite gemstone.

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!

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.

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

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

The opal is my favourite. Gorgeous.

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.

THEY'RE ALL BEAUTIFUL.

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

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.

My favs are Labradorite & Moonstone crystals✌☺👍

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

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

Thanks for teaching in such a play way manner

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 😍

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.

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.

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

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

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! 💕💕💕

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

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..

Opas are just….. chefs kiss

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

Allout astounding!

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.👨‍🏫💎

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

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

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

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.

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 😊

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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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The triple cats eye caught my eye

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

I love the video. That night stone was awesome.

This chick knows everything! I’m in awe

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

You missed my two favorites. Diasterism, and tenebrescence.

Is phosphorescence just slower emitting fluorescence?

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?

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

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.

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

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

Have you covered the properties of Purpurite yet?

Labradorite all the way babyyyyyy!!

Awesome

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.

Others fun ones are ulexite and double refraction in calcite.

I have a nice sphere of Labradorite

This was cool, thank you.

Opals are phosphorescent too.

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.

How come New Jersey does not have a Sunstone market like Oregon because I find it all the time here and its arguably better than Oregon Sunstone.

This video is super fun

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!

star sapphire. Because my beloved husband chose this stone for his wedding band, and I lost the ring after his death. It will always remind me of the love of my life.

Very nice admin!

Good video

Labradorite

I hope the Fire Agate is in this video....

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?

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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

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?

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

Sunstone

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?

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....

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

I liked this for the super smash brothers😍

Some natural calcites florescence.

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

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

Nice video!! Thanks for sharing!!