Oregon Sunstone

Anyone who has visited my website www.ranamountainstudio.com must know that I am a little obsessed with this stone, as I have over 100 unique examples of Oregon Sunstone listed on the site --and still more in my private stash.


With delectable colors, fantastic coppery schiller, and other intriguing optical phenomena Oregon Sunstone is truly sublime.

Colors range from pale gold, to rosy apricot, to deep red and even occasionally green or blue green tones. Often stones are washed with metallic schiller that dances in the light. This schiller effect is caused by copper platelet inclusions. Stones are sometimes bicolored or tricolored and may be pleiochroic meaning they change colors when viewed from different angles.

Here are some gorgeous Oregon Sunstone Full Teardrop Briolette Beads in an intense red-- some stones exhibiting bicolored tinges of spruce green within the red:














And below are some specimens with intense schiller in a faceted pear briolette shape (L) or smooth polished nuggets (R)
















This is just a small sampling of what is available for jewelry designers and collectors.
There is much to learn about this fascinating stone; If you would like to read on for more Information about Oregon Sunstone including the history, geology and other details, click on the link to read my Oregon Sunstone information site.