Rockhounding Amazing SUNSTONE And MOONSTONE!! Winter 2021 

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!!

I looooooooveeee moonstone!!!

enjoyed seeing the finds

Super useful video sir

I love the way you label everything you find and talk about the geology of the area. I’m learning a lot!

Gorgeous pieces.... such beautiful country. Thanks for sharing.

I wish I lived close to areas to find moonstone or opal maybe. Cool stuff..

I love the pink stones!

Very good collecting today for you. My hands just cringe at the thought of you reaching into that cold water! Have a great day.

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

Really need to drive out to Washington some time

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.

Nicely done. Yeah, to find the pearlescence you need sunshine. In the Chache La Poudre River in Colorado there is a lot of river tumbled feldspar that shines really nicely, and when it is polished it shimmers incredible. I am assuming that is what you are talking about?

Nice 👍

Finally somebody's talking about sun stones aren't they cool my cousin told me that they are really rare and they cost a lot of money 💰💰🤑

Oh yeah, I *did* check this out already! I agree, what you have is similar to rainbow lattice! So cool!

Very nice video! Both moon stone and sun stone are so mysterious and beautiful. Unakite, it was really beautiful too. Thank you!

Thanks for showing the pin fire in the stones, it's beautiful!

Amazing specimens

Nice finds right across the border

Very nice! Haven’t seen anyone rock hound for sunstone in BC before.

Beautiful finds great job

Beautiful video man, that piece at 8:00 is my favorite. Beautiful material 🔥🔥

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.

I’ve always assumed you can only find sunstones in Plush, Oregon. Good to know & great video.

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.

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-i6FurAPpmKo.html 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). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-feZfTogLQbw.html Here's a look at one of may favourite intact crystals of this stuff ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sqvya56UQ6U.html

Cool finds man, you have to get to Plush.

Feldspar is far more complicated than most people I see on RU-vid 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.

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.

MOLY IT WOULD SEEM AT 3:16

what general area of bc is it if you dont mind?

I bought some rocks! Strange sheen reminds me of sunstone or moonstone, not sure? HELP?!😔

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