18.98 CTS RAINBOW LATTICE SUNSTONE ROUGH -UNTREATED [F8944]

QUALITY ROUGH

RAINBOW LATTICE SUNSTONE 

This is one of Australias most unique gemstone found in 1985 in the harts range Northern terrority. This is a natural stone that has NOT been stabilized  or treated in any way.

You have the option to cut it as it is ,cut the fracture lines away into smaller stones or to treat with it with opticon or any other stabilizer. 
We have wet the stone slightly.

This material does have very little of the lattice effect but are very bright stones.

Its a mixture of feldspar predominately moonstone with limenite and triangles which have  a stunning display of iridescent rainbow .Most specimens also have hematite[sunstone] and a moon stone effect ,Adularescence.

The GIA  indentified it and declared it as a new gem variety in 1989

The weight is for the parcel and thje the size is the biggest stone in the parcel.