Sunstone

Sunstone is an ancient gem, in fact, sunstones have been discovered in Viking Burial mounds. They are also found in Mexico, China, Norway, Russia, Africa and the United States. Native Americans valued sunstone nuggets, trading them across western America and using them in Medicine Wheel ceremonies.
Sunstone is the state stone of Oregon, where many of the finest specimens are mined.Oregon sunstones are uncommon in their composition, clarity, and range of colors. Some Oregon sunstones exhibit a glow from within due to millions of microscopic copper platelets, known as "schiller".
Colors of the stone vary from clear, champagne, yellow, light pink, salmon, orange, and red to blue-green. Intense red and blue-green are the colors that are most rare. The darker stones contain larger amounts of copper. Sometimes, when viewed from different angles, as many as three colors will show within one stone. Some value the stone for its alleged metaphysical properties, claiming that it holds a positive energy represented by the power of the sun, bestowing prosperity, wisdom, fearlessness, generosity, and mental clarity.

NOTE: Stones on this page were photographed under 5000 Kelvin "daylight" lighting.
For maximum color accuracy, descriptions were made in north-facing natural daylight,
indoors, between 11am-2pm, at 32.89°N latitude.

COLOR: Wherever possible, a similar Pantone Color Card number has been used, NOT the Pantone colors online,
which necessarily use RGB approximations, are grayer, and not at all the same.
Since color is so subjective to lighting conditions, and light is in turn subjective to location,
descriptions and pictures are intended to give a general idea of actual color.
To know what these stones really look like, there is no substitute for seeing them in person.