Sunstone Crystal Bracelet Grade 5A size:6 mm and pleochroic - the same

and pleochroic - the same stone shows violet from one angle and paler pink from another

detailed craftsmanship

musky-herbal

5–7 but cleaving cleanly under a sharp knock

its fine parallel fibres throwing a chatoyant band of light that travels as the stone turns

Sunstone Crystal Bracelet Grade 5A size:6 mm and pleochroic - the sameSunstone a feldspar spangled with hematite, flashing copper gold as the wrist moves, as if the stone carried its own light. The glitter is mineral, aligned inside the crystal as it grew. Aventurescence is the lapidarys word for it light striking thousands of metal oxide plates that settled in parallel as the feldspar crystallised. Goldstone, the glittering man made glass often sold as its substitute, is the imitation; this is the mineral the glass