Huge 17.25ct Golden Champagne Oregon Sunstone

A classic example of bicolor Oregon Sunstone. Deep reddish orange with bright green. This is some of the best colors nature has to offer. Very little copper schiller in this stone means it's not sleepy at all. Great cutting gives you that amazing shine you expect from a top-quality Oregon Sunstone. The weight of this stone is 2.9ct. Stone measures 9.26mm around and is 6.75mm deep. This stone would make an incredible ring, pendant, or brooch.

This stone looks a lot like a very expensive sunset tourmaline, but it's not. It's a bi-color Oregon Sunstone with shades of pink and gold. The concave cutting ads an extra dimension to this gorgeous gemstone that glistens and gleams with warm tones. This stone would look stunning, set in rose gold, yellow, or white gold. The choice is all yours. This stone measures 12.5mm across and weighs 5.75ct. Good sized stone for a ring or a pendant.

Here's a nice little Oregon Sunstone with some fantastic color and copper schiller. Oregon Sunstone is such a fun material because no two stones are ever 100% alike. This one has that AAA copper schiller, and the color is a nice dark pink, a little less orange than some. The color is almost what I'd call a Padparadscha pink. There are many legends around Oregon Sunstone and Sunstone in general. The Northern Piute legend is that a great warrior fell wounded by an enemies arrow. The warriors blood carried his spirit into the stones, staining them red and giving them sacred power. The Norse were known to have used calcite to be able to determine the location of the sun on overcast days, but this is different from the silicate feldspar we know as Sunstone today. While there are other feldspar materials known as Sunstone, Oregon Sunstone is the only one with the unique copper inclusions. This particular gem weighs 1.02ct and measures 6mm. It's cut into a cute cushion design that would work well in a ring or a small pendant.

Green Oregon Sunstone are the rarest there are. Get one that has colors like these and size? That's a unicorn, for sure. While Oregon Sunstone comes in many colors, about 90% of them are champagne or clear. Another 5-7% are peach shiller, while 2% are red and 1% might be green to some degree. To find a stone this color and size is difficult at best. This bicolor green/gold Oregon Sunstone has that peachy copper "schiller" effect while remaining very clear. It's a balancing act this stone pulls off so well. This will make a remarkable piece of custom jewelry. If you've got a client who loves green Oregon Sunstone, this is the one to show them. Stone weight is a massive 11.6ct and measures 19x14.5mm with a depth of 8mm. Breathtakingly cut into a wide pear shape that shows off the deep green color of this stone. Stone is "eye clean" with a small flaw you can see under magnification at the shoulder on the face of the stone. It's not Something you'd see with the naked eye, but I did want to disclose this.