PRODUCT INFORMATION
Moonstone / Rainbow Moonstone / Sunstone
Moonstone / Rainbow Moonstone / Sunstone
Moonstone has delicate beauty and long heritage and it is perhaps the most familiar in the gem-quality member of the feldspar group.
The phenomenon, soft glow that appears to billow across a gemstone called adularescence is caused by the scattering of light by stacked, alternating mineral layers. Adularescence received its name from “adularia”, an old name for moonstone.
Sri Lanka is a major source of top-quality moonstone.
The name known as rainbow moonstones which has a multicoloured adularescence combined with a light bodycolour, despite the fact that there are actually labradorites found in Madagascar.
While cool moonstone’s phenomenal varieties show a distinct and lively glitter called aventurescence which is a sparkly, metallic luster caused by flat, reflective inclusions.
Sunstone from the US state of Oregon isn’t treated. Oregon sunstone is transparent feldspar with copper inclusions. It comes in a colorless form, as well as in a wide variety of colours.
