Two new pieces are available on my shop! This gorgeously multi-colored blue labradorite, and this classy, elegant moonstone, which has a subtle but beautiful blue glow to her!
These pieces and more are available HERE, on Etsy! Additionally, feel free to message me if you're interested in a custom commission-- pieces standardize at $35.
Ah, gemstones, one of the banes of my existence as geologist. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate their beauty but all the silly trade names that gemologists come up with for varieties of the same mineral drive me up the wall.
Anyway, feldspars can be gemstone quality if they are not broken down by natural processes first. There's only a couple that really matter: kspar, albite, and labradorite.
Moonstone is probably the most "valuable" of these gems. It is sometimes known as adularia due to it's adularescence (moonshine effect). This is caused by the orientation of albite crystals within orthoclase. It is usually colorless or white.
Sunstone resembles moonstone but has a golden color and a warm, shiny, golden adularescence. This is an albite gemstone, as is aventurine. Aventurine has a characteristic appearance of aventurescence, or a sparkly, metallic look.
Labradorite is a mixed plagioclase feldspar that exhibits labradorescence, reflected light caused by characteristic polysynthetic twinning of the mineral.
Finally, there is Amazonite, a microcline gemstone that usually green or light blue-green in color. It often exhibits perthite texture seen as white lines. Perthite texture occurs with exsolution or unmixing.
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Atlas bone with labradorite and moonstone. This piece is available for $45USD! I will be adding all pieces I am making on my etsy after this weekend, since I am shipping off all new stock to a night market, but anything I post is available! Just dm me.