SKU: C316

Oregon Sunstone

4.38 carats

$800.00

1 in stock

SKU: C316 Category: Tag:

Nice orange color in this pentagonal original design. Some really pretty schiller platelets can be seen in the pavilion.

Carats

4.38

Clarity

Color Specification

Color

Orange, Red

Cut

Dimensions (mm)

11.3 x 11.5 x 7.9

Origin

Overall Quality

Stone Shape

Pentagon

Treatments

None

1

In the early 1800s sunstone was a little-known, rare, and costly gemstone. It wasn’t until finds in Norway, Siberia, and other parts of the world that sunstone became somewhat more widely recognized, more available, and less expensive.

2

In the US state of Oregon in the early 1900s, there were reports of sunstone finds in ancient lava fields in a desert area called Warner Valley. Even earlier, Native Americans in that area might have been the first collectors of Warner Valley sunstones.

3

In 1987 sunstone was declared the state mineral for Oregon in the USA. The Oregon sunstone is rather unique in that it is the only sunstone that contains copper crystals.