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Yellow Labradorite?
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Barbara
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Hi, Minims,
Most likely it is the type of sunstone they mine in Oregon minus the shiller and/or red or green body color that makes it more valuable. $10 is reasonable price for this stuff. A good comparison would be like selling rock crystal gems versus selling amethyst, cat''seye quartz or rose quartz -- same basic mineral species but without color or phenomena, and being quite common, worth very little. The ones I have seen are a very lackluster, pale yellow, not vivid at all, so if these gems are vivid, expect some treatment has been used.
Barbara
Most likely it is the type of sunstone they mine in Oregon minus the shiller and/or red or green body color that makes it more valuable. $10 is reasonable price for this stuff. A good comparison would be like selling rock crystal gems versus selling amethyst, cat''seye quartz or rose quartz -- same basic mineral species but without color or phenomena, and being quite common, worth very little. The ones I have seen are a very lackluster, pale yellow, not vivid at all, so if these gems are vivid, expect some treatment has been used.
Barbara
Hi all,
This coud also refer to faceted Orthoclase Feldspar - GIA always required this material to be identified as "Transparent Labradorite". A large majority of material now available comes from Madagascar and the color is always a light straw yellow.
Either way, $10/ct. is still just about right.
Regards,
Brad
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Barbara and Brad:
Thank you for your responses! I ordered a matched pair of the stones that arrived yesterday. "Light straw" describes the color perfectly! The stones I got are Portugese cut and reflect nicely, but the imnner reflection is much lighter, almost white, if that makes any sense. I have another stone that's only a little darker in color -- a yellow beryl, I think. When I look into that stone the facets reflect more the color of the stone and even a bit deeper, which to me makes the stone look much richer. The long and short of it is that the "yellow labradorite" will be making a return trip to Tennessee.
Hmm... I'm thinking I that if I'm going to be conversing in this forum, I'll need to learn a bit of the native tongue. I'll have to go look for a gem-speak phrasebook!
Thank you for your responses! I ordered a matched pair of the stones that arrived yesterday. "Light straw" describes the color perfectly! The stones I got are Portugese cut and reflect nicely, but the imnner reflection is much lighter, almost white, if that makes any sense. I have another stone that's only a little darker in color -- a yellow beryl, I think. When I look into that stone the facets reflect more the color of the stone and even a bit deeper, which to me makes the stone look much richer. The long and short of it is that the "yellow labradorite" will be making a return trip to Tennessee.
Hmm... I'm thinking I that if I'm going to be conversing in this forum, I'll need to learn a bit of the native tongue. I'll have to go look for a gem-speak phrasebook!
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