Specifications
Description
Locality: Spectrum Mine, Plush area, Lake County, Oregon, USA
Description: Oregon sunstone is Oregon's official state gemstone, named in 1987. It is a natural labradorite feldspar that formed as large crystals inside basalt lava in the high desert of south-central Oregon. As the lava weathers away, the tougher feldspar crystals are left behind in the soil.
These pieces come from the Spectrum Mine in the Plush area of Lake County, a private mine where diggers keep what they find. Geologists have dated the sunstone-bearing basalt in this part of Oregon to about 9 million years old, in the late Miocene.
Many Oregon sunstones contain tiny flat platelets of native copper that flash in the light, an effect called schiller. Worldwide, copper inside early-forming feldspar crystals like this is rare. Copper also gives some stones red or green colour.
These are non-schiller pieces, small natural sunstone crystals without the copper flash.
In crystal traditions, sunstone is associated with joy, confidence and good fortune.
Chemical Composition: (Ca,Na)(Al,Si)4O8
Chakra: Sacral
Approximate Size for 1 piece: 16mm x 10mm x 5mm
Approximate Weight for 1 piece: 1.2g
Quantity: 1pc or baggie of 150grams
We do our best to buy quality products- although not every rock is the same. If you choose to purchase the "staff pick option", we will select the best of the batch for you. Otherwise, it will be at random from the larger batch we have in stock.
Watch Adam dig for Oregon sunstone (an earlier trip): My Oregon Sunstone Trip