@@moonriserocks definitely don't lick it if your unsure of what it is! Even if it is salt it's most likely low grade and unfit for consumption due to natural contaminants
@@lbr88x30 I haven't been into crystals since I was young so I didn't know you could find orange selenite, thanks for the info! Also selanite is a salt based crystal so I wouldn't be to far off with my guess hehe
I used to sell crystals. The number of times I recieved pieces that had a coat of resin/lacquer/plastic wrap is too many to count. (A 40 lb box of rose quartz slabs and chunks! 😩)
@@sleepysnjomen1707 I actually think working in a store would have been a lot of fun, but I did my own thing. I sold online primarily, and through word of mouth. Everyone knows somebody who loves rocks, you know? lol
I love watching advent calendar unboxings, it was fun to see someone who knows crystals do this one! I saw a pretty tragic one last year too, where it was marketed as STEM but the descriptions were all very mystic, which is cool but didn’t match the supposed theme of the box.
I think the black and white stone from box 10 could possibly be either black and white Jasper, or possibly a chunk of marble. It might even be a piece of calcite, but not too sure about that as it looks too solid. Calcite has a more jagged and crumbly texture.
I think it’s blue apatite. I have a raw piece myself, and it’s very blue, looks beautiful when you hold it up to a light, it’s translucent? I think is the classification. We washed it with soap and water and no dye ran off of it 👍🏼
Hot take, I love amethyst but I feel like it and stuff like tiger's eye, quartz, pyrite etc are what you see everywhere when crystals and rocks are being sold. So their inclusion doesn't impress me much. :/
Totally agree! I still like them, but I much prefer things like agates and jasper because they tend to have a lot more variety. That's also why I'm not a super fan of rose quartz. It's pretty, but once you've seen one you've basically seen them all.
I’d love to see a video where you talk about Fake crystals, minerals and stones, it’s something I didn’t even think was a thing! (Obviously people fake prehistoric stones and fossils but I’ve never heard of general minerals) I’d love to know how to spot fakes, that’d be interesting
That's flower agate I have seen it before with the little pockets I think the one you said was venturing is probably fluorite it might be a dyed quartz, the one that was really extremely blue.
In order from the ones you placed: 1: Pyrite 2: Quartz (Polished point, which is why it is odd) 3:Just a yellow Agate, 4: Rose Quartz, 5: Tigerseye, 6: Could just be an odd variety Chalcopyrite on quartz, or a variety of gneiss 7: Apatite, 8: Aventurine 9: Amethyst 10: Fuchsite 11: Halite 12: Agate 13: Citrine 14: Red Jasper 15: Howlite 16: Obsidian, 17: Amethyst, 18: Moss Agate, 19: Red Jasper (I have had Jasper tumbles and palmstones like this, sometimes they include small drusy) 20: Gypsum 21: Amethyst 22: Quartz 23: Goldstone (glass) 24: Aventurine Hope this helps, it's hard to see some of the finer details, but I've been collecting, selling and curating for 8 years now :)
I'm listing from the ones placed at the very end, when it is placed on the sheet and says "malachite" it's clearly not malachite, it's crumbling/flaking texture and shimmer indicates it's a variety of mica, mica has tons of tiny little planes composed of sheets which is why it shimmers that way in the light, the light reflects off of all the tiny planes which is happening here .@@missmarie_8790
Thank you for being willing to potentially buy crap to entertain the masses. 😂 This was much better than last year! How does tumbling obsidian work? I'd be worried that the dust would be sharp, but I guess it'd just be "sludge" anyway, so...? Love that the "A Great Varite" flyer did not match At All 😂
old vid now, but if anyone is still wondering: sandstone is an old name for goldstone (other names include: monk's stone, monkstone, monk's gold, aventurine glass [no relation, named for its aventurescence], stellaria, and gold star glass!) the pyrite was probably supposed to be the nickel :)
Your very blue stone that you think was dyed is almost exactly the color of a chunk of apatite that I purchased from a reputable rock and gem seller. Could still be dyed, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it's natural.
i was actually looking at this calendar, but decided to buy 3 different ones from 3 different sellers on etsy!! i'm so super excited! i wated to get the expensive one you reviewed, but they didn't sell them this year, crossing my fingers for next year!
The pink clear rock on the 3rd one when I first seen it I thought pink Himalayan salt rock they do have healing properties & are a natural mineral so I guess it could count
I got a “National Geographic” advert calendar from Temu. Luckily it was cheap. I think I ended up with glass and rocks picked up off the street. The back had pictures that listed what the rocks were, for example, blue pebble, Ross quartz, etc. Very disappointed. This one is much better than what I got. I did one last year from Amazon and it was pretty good.
I don't think they misspelled that first one, I look up Moorstone and I get pictures of a rock that is apparently popular for stone fireplaces alongside stock images of generic masonry, so it's real but it's not a collector's stone it's a generic rock used in masonry.
@@moonriserocks Selenite is so fragile, you would feel it if it was soft. I have to look into the REAL National Geographic kit. Is there one you would seriously recommend that the average person could afford? (BTW love your videos!)
Hello ^^ I have a question about stones: I somehow never see my favourite and wondered if it is either rarely seen (like not exciting enough or such) or if it has a different Name in English? (I'm not a native English speaker) The stone I mean is the blue striped chalcedon or - I believe it was named this as well - the blue lace agathe. Another synthetic stone I like is the "Blaufluss" (blue river in English). Its a dark blue stone with glitter. Some pieces look like the milky way (they are bad/defect ones, as the glitter should be more spread out and not being concentrated in one big stripe). The glittere orange one looks like the "Goldfluss" (Gold River). It's the same synthetic stone, just in a coppery colour Edit: Spelling mistake
Hey! Blue Lace Agate is the name in English, but you’re right, it’s not very common! I don’t see it all that often either, but it’s gorgeous. I would love to tumble some eventually! I believe the second one you’re talking about is called blue goldstone. The orange version is just called goldstone. It is man made, but very pretty too!
@@moonriserocks Thank you so much for answering my question ♥ So the Blue Lace Agate is kind of rare? I don't tumble myself, though I kinda like to see all the pretty stones getting tumbled by others xD I once visited a store with a friend were we got spoken to by a saleswoman about picking out 3 stones that spoke to us. I got the Blue Lace Agathe, the Strawberry Quarz (I believe it was Quarz?) and the Blue Goldstone (didn't knew it was their name. Thank you for telling me ^^) I really loved the Blue Laced Agate and bought a small Necklace with a small obelisk in a silver hook or how these attachements are called. I don't care for their spiritual meaing or such. Just love their looks. I had stone advent calendars in the past as well (cheap ones with like birhtday stones and some quarzes and such) Some time later I bought a small Blue Goldstone as a lucky charm. I was carrying it around in my purse. It was a defect one with a most black stone and a brilliant stripe across one side. It really looked like a milky way and I loved it. Sadly lost my purse, including this stone. As it was a defect one, I never was able to find another one looking like that
That 'guide' is just so hilariously wrong. Chalcopyrite is metallic rainbow over black, often called peacock ore, and tigerseye isn't even vaguely close.. The red stone with the band just looks like a red jasper with a nice well defined quartz vein through it. The one with the druzy pockets is an agate, probably close to a moss agate. I'm also inclined to say that blue thing is dyed, but it could also be azurite if it's really crumbly. I'd be very interested to hear what tumbling will do. The quartz crystal has been tumbled but you can still see the characteristic big flat crystal face of a Brazilian point, just all rounded off.
Hi. I'm a life-long student of geology. Number 5 could be a Herkimer diamond. Number 8 looks like green gypsum. Number 9 appears to be milk quartz in matrix. Number 12 could be any of a number of greenish minerals. In its unpolished state it's hard to tell. Number 13 looks like yellow Chalcedony/jasper (same mineral family). Chonc-oi-dal fracture. Number 16 is a red jasper agate. I have several of them that are very similar to yours. Number 17 is a snakeskin jasper. Number 18 appears to be Chrysocolla. Hard to be certain with it in an unpolished state. Number 19 looks like it is apetite. Number 21 looks like smokey chalcedony. Number 22 is a yellow carnelian agate (AKA sunstone). Again, I have several of them in my collection. You did very well in identifying your stones. By the way, the gem chart is so, so wrong. Please don't go by it for definite identification of your stones. You actually had most of them identified correctly; unlike the chart you had at the end.
Hey! Thanks for the info. I'm a rock/crystal gal myself. I agree with a lot of your IDs, but I believe 5 was likely resin or quartz coated in resin. It felt like plastic to me. I highly doubt they'd include something like a Herkimer diamond in there because this calendar was made in China, and Herkimers are specific to NY. For number 18, chrysocolla is a deeper blue/green and has more variation in color, is softer than this one was, and is way too fancy for a cheap calendar like this in my opinion. I'm almost positive it was aventurine. Raw aventurine tends to have that milky/chalky look to it. Number 19 could be apatite , but I'm leaning towards dyed quartz because it was translucent, VERY blue, and didn't have much variation in color. I definitely agree on the chart being bonkers. Like I said in the video, this was a knock-off calendar so I wasn't expecting anything high quality or accurate descriptions. At least it was way better than the one I got last year!
@@moonriserocks , you're welcome for any help that I can provide. It's hard to do any accurate identification of stones when all you have is images of the items in question. Obviously so much easier when they are solid objects a person can hold, feel and see. Take care.
Every time I see herkimer diamonds mentioned I just kick myself for living there for 2 years and literally never knowing about them at all until I moved back to Texas!
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Please tumble them. I want to see what happens to the blue one. If the feeling of the odd ones comes off and how the raw one turn out.
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I think “moonstone” and “Gabbro” should have been swapped…not that it matters😅😂
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I was thinking that as the colour matches
Ditto! That was bugging me so much and I don't know why. lol
Same.
Could the crumbly one be a chunk of Himalayan rock salt?
The inconsistency of colour and crumblyness could be attributed to it being that.
That's what I was wondering too! But now the only way to know for sure is to lick it... and I don't think I'm quite brave enough for that 😅
@@moonriserocks definitely don't lick it if your unsure of what it is! Even if it is salt it's most likely low grade and unfit for consumption due to natural contaminants
It looks like orange selenite to me.
@@lbr88x30 I haven't been into crystals since I was young so I didn't know you could find orange selenite, thanks for the info!
Also selanite is a salt based crystal so I wouldn't be to far off with my guess hehe
@@lbr88x30I hadn't thought about that I was leaning towards Himalayan salt too but orange selling I could definitely be as well
I used to sell crystals. The number of times I recieved pieces that had a coat of resin/lacquer/plastic wrap is too many to count. (A 40 lb box of rose quartz slabs and chunks! 😩)
Ooh wow I've always been hella interested in selling crystals/crystal jewellery in some way
Did you work in a shop or have your own thing? :)
@@sleepysnjomen1707 I actually think working in a store would have been a lot of fun, but I did my own thing. I sold online primarily, and through word of mouth. Everyone knows somebody who loves rocks, you know? lol
I love watching advent calendar unboxings, it was fun to see someone who knows crystals do this one! I saw a pretty tragic one last year too, where it was marketed as STEM but the descriptions were all very mystic, which is cool but didn’t match the supposed theme of the box.
Was that Cherry Wallis? If so I watched that video and it was bad 😬
Day three looks suspiciously like a chunk of Himalayan salt 😅😅
I think 17 is a flower agate
I was wondering if it was a type of calcite.
You can taste it if it salt or not
Watching you pair up the gemstones when some were pretty obvious killed me 😍😩
I think the black and white stone from box 10 could possibly be either black and white Jasper, or possibly a chunk of marble. It might even be a piece of calcite, but not too sure about that as it looks too solid. Calcite has a more jagged and crumbly texture.
I'm pretty sure #19 is real. The name escapes me, but I have several raw ones of that color in my collection. :3
I think 3 is Himalayan pink salt which is supposed to be a healing crystal
10 is Thompsonite
I think it’s blue apatite. I have a raw piece myself, and it’s very blue, looks beautiful when you hold it up to a light, it’s translucent? I think is the classification. We washed it with soap and water and no dye ran off of it 👍🏼
It’s probably horrible translation
Well I know when I start selling rocks mine won’t be glass or dyed. 😂
What about normal rocks
Hot take, I love amethyst but I feel like it and stuff like tiger's eye, quartz, pyrite etc are what you see everywhere when crystals and rocks are being sold. So their inclusion doesn't impress me much. :/
Totally agree! I still like them, but I much prefer things like agates and jasper because they tend to have a lot more variety. That's also why I'm not a super fan of rose quartz. It's pretty, but once you've seen one you've basically seen them all.
@@moonriserocksSomehow I can't comment I can only reply. Just wanted to say, for 20$, that's not a bad price :D
I’d love to see a video where you talk about Fake crystals, minerals and stones, it’s something I didn’t even think was a thing! (Obviously people fake prehistoric stones and fossils but I’ve never heard of general minerals) I’d love to know how to spot fakes, that’d be interesting
I think the mottled black and white (4 down, 3 from left) should be "morestone" and the pyrite whatever the other one is "supposed" to be
That's flower agate I have seen it before with the little pockets I think the one you said was venturing is probably fluorite it might be a dyed quartz, the one that was really extremely blue.
My first thought with the crumbly pink one was to lick it... Will you tumble the raw ones?
Yeah, me too! My first thought was gypsum or another salt mineral
In order from the ones you placed: 1: Pyrite 2: Quartz (Polished point, which is why it is odd) 3:Just a yellow Agate, 4: Rose Quartz, 5: Tigerseye, 6: Could just be an odd variety Chalcopyrite on quartz, or a variety of gneiss 7: Apatite, 8: Aventurine 9: Amethyst 10: Fuchsite 11: Halite 12: Agate 13: Citrine 14: Red Jasper 15: Howlite 16: Obsidian, 17: Amethyst, 18: Moss Agate, 19: Red Jasper (I have had Jasper tumbles and palmstones like this, sometimes they include small drusy) 20: Gypsum 21: Amethyst 22: Quartz 23: Goldstone (glass) 24: Aventurine
Hope this helps, it's hard to see some of the finer details, but I've been collecting, selling and curating for 8 years now :)
#10 is not Fuchsite…. Fuchsite is teal green similar color to aventurine. It’s either, Jasper, marble or calcite.
I'm listing from the ones placed at the very end, when it is placed on the sheet and says "malachite" it's clearly not malachite, it's crumbling/flaking texture and shimmer indicates it's a variety of mica, mica has tons of tiny little planes composed of sheets which is why it shimmers that way in the light, the light reflects off of all the tiny planes which is happening here .@@missmarie_8790
'Bout to heal all my medical conditions with a hunk of scrap plastic. 😂
Thank you for being willing to potentially buy crap to entertain the masses. 😂 This was much better than last year!
How does tumbling obsidian work? I'd be worried that the dust would be sharp, but I guess it'd just be "sludge" anyway, so...?
Love that the "A Great Varite" flyer did not match At All 😂
I LOVE ADVENT CALENDARS, I’m happy up get to have the joy of opening one
old vid now, but if anyone is still wondering: sandstone is an old name for goldstone (other names include: monk's stone, monkstone, monk's gold, aventurine glass [no relation, named for its aventurescence], stellaria, and gold star glass!) the pyrite was probably supposed to be the nickel :)
16:14 it’s the moorstone one lol. From behind the lens it looks like the first one.
I'm pretty sure 16 is brecciated jasper. I have a brecciated jasper worry stone in my pocket right now!
Great video. You crack me up! “Pee colored quartz” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The day three one is pink mountain salt
Your very blue stone that you think was dyed is almost exactly the color of a chunk of apatite that I purchased from a reputable rock and gem seller. Could still be dyed, but I wouldn't be surprised to find it's natural.
I definitely want to see them tumbled. I want to know which ones changed color and which fall apart completely.
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i was actually looking at this calendar, but decided to buy 3 different ones from 3 different sellers on etsy!! i'm so super excited! i wated to get the expensive one you reviewed, but they didn't sell them this year, crossing my fingers for next year!
The pink clear rock on the 3rd one when I first seen it I thought pink Himalayan salt rock they do have healing properties & are a natural mineral so I guess it could count
?!?!? The moonstone is wrong!!!
I got a “National Geographic” advert calendar from Temu. Luckily it was cheap. I think I ended up with glass and rocks picked up off the street. The back had pictures that listed what the rocks were, for example, blue pebble, Ross quartz, etc. Very disappointed. This one is much better than what I got. I did one last year from Amazon and it was pretty good.
TUMBLE THEM! TUMBLE THEM!
Please tumble them! Would love to see the outcome
And to see if any of the suspects can be identified/verified?
I don't think they misspelled that first one, I look up Moorstone and I get pictures of a rock that is apparently popular for stone fireplaces alongside stock images of generic masonry, so it's real but it's not a collector's stone it's a generic rock used in masonry.
I got the glass set and was so disappointed. This is a major step up
That seems a much better Varite (sic) than last year's box at least!
Tumble them!!!!!
" Varite" love it. Think they meant variety.
Number 8 looks like a flourite maybe with quartz.
number 10 is limestone, i used to own a bunch of it
Please time that tiger's eye. It's one of my favorites!
That blue, if it’s anything it’s fluorite
I have captured stones that look like day 16 in the wild in South Texas but I don't know what it is.
I don't know what the white grey one is either but I've some of them so this one could be definitely legit
Here, 1 hour after this was posted, aka before this blows up! Keep up the good work
Aww thank you! 💜
@@moonriserocks thanks even more for replying.
Would rosin just melt if tumbled?
Moorstone is a type of granite.
21 looks like it might be green citrine!
I think number 3 is calcite. And 17 is Flower Agate.
I have crystals at home and my only qiestion is that do they really work or its just an faux thing?
"A Great VA-Rite." lol
Got a weird feeling that they all have great relationships w their fathers / are great swimmers / can’t jump exceptionally high
Moorstone is a type of english granite out of Cronwall
So where did you get this box of mysteries from? Could 12 or 13 (can't remember which) be selenite.
Amazon! It kinda looked like it but felt a bit too hard to be selenite.
@@moonriserocks Selenite is so fragile, you would feel it if it was soft. I have to look into the REAL National Geographic kit. Is there one you would seriously recommend that the average person could afford? (BTW love your videos!)
Beautiful
So nice of them to give you a chart, with real minerals even, too bad most of them were not the rocks in your box 😂
Last year I thought the last stone was gonna be another piece of yellow glass 😂. Every piece of yellow glass opened cracked me up
Hello ^^
I have a question about stones:
I somehow never see my favourite and wondered if it is either rarely seen (like not exciting enough or such) or if it has a different Name in English? (I'm not a native English speaker)
The stone I mean is the blue striped chalcedon or - I believe it was named this as well - the blue lace agathe.
Another synthetic stone I like is the "Blaufluss" (blue river in English). Its a dark blue stone with glitter. Some pieces look like the milky way (they are bad/defect ones, as the glitter should be more spread out and not being concentrated in one big stripe). The glittere orange one looks like the "Goldfluss" (Gold River). It's the same synthetic stone, just in a coppery colour
Edit: Spelling mistake
Hey! Blue Lace Agate is the name in English, but you’re right, it’s not very common! I don’t see it all that often either, but it’s gorgeous. I would love to tumble some eventually!
I believe the second one you’re talking about is called blue goldstone. The orange version is just called goldstone. It is man made, but very pretty too!
@@moonriserocks
Thank you so much for answering my question ♥
So the Blue Lace Agate is kind of rare? I don't tumble myself, though I kinda like to see all the pretty stones getting tumbled by others xD
I once visited a store with a friend were we got spoken to by a saleswoman about picking out 3 stones that spoke to us. I got the Blue Lace Agathe, the Strawberry Quarz (I believe it was Quarz?) and the Blue Goldstone (didn't knew it was their name. Thank you for telling me ^^)
I really loved the Blue Laced Agate and bought a small Necklace with a small obelisk in a silver hook or how these attachements are called. I don't care for their spiritual meaing or such. Just love their looks.
I had stone advent calendars in the past as well (cheap ones with like birhtday stones and some quarzes and such)
Some time later I bought a small Blue Goldstone as a lucky charm. I was carrying it around in my purse. It was a defect one with a most black stone and a brilliant stripe across one side. It really looked like a milky way and I loved it. Sadly lost my purse, including this stone. As it was a defect one, I never was able to find another one looking like that
I might perches this calendar
Can you do a video comparing inexpensive advent calendar with an advent calendar that costs like 100+
You’re in luck because I’m about to open a $300 one 👀
@@moonriserocks oh yayy!
"a pee colored quartz" got me laughing lol
That 'guide' is just so hilariously wrong. Chalcopyrite is metallic rainbow over black, often called peacock ore, and tigerseye isn't even vaguely close..
The red stone with the band just looks like a red jasper with a nice well defined quartz vein through it. The one with the druzy pockets is an agate, probably close to a moss agate. I'm also inclined to say that blue thing is dyed, but it could also be azurite if it's really crumbly. I'd be very interested to hear what tumbling will do. The quartz crystal has been tumbled but you can still see the characteristic big flat crystal face of a Brazilian point, just all rounded off.
I got a advent calendar last year and majority was glass 😢
this deccal imitating my face
The blue crystal could be kyanite.
YA I HAD ONE LAST YEAR AND I IMMEDIATELY KNEW ON DAY ONE IT WAS A FAKE
i mean, to get 24 days actually getting different rocks every day could get hella expensive so im impressed
Lol if youre seeing this video it was probably fireworks 😅😅😂
oohh i wanna eat them
Edit: it doesn't help that #19 looks like kohakuto candy.
Gabbro and moonstone need to be switched
Thats what I came to say lmao
My partner says the really unreal blue one is maybe apatite
Hi. I'm a life-long student of geology. Number 5 could be a Herkimer diamond. Number 8 looks like green gypsum. Number 9 appears to be milk quartz in matrix. Number 12 could be any of a number of greenish minerals. In its unpolished state it's hard to tell. Number 13 looks like yellow Chalcedony/jasper (same mineral family). Chonc-oi-dal fracture. Number 16 is a red jasper agate. I have several of them that are very similar to yours. Number 17 is a snakeskin jasper. Number 18 appears to be Chrysocolla. Hard to be certain with it in an unpolished state. Number 19 looks like it is apetite. Number 21 looks like smokey chalcedony. Number 22 is a yellow carnelian agate (AKA sunstone). Again, I have several of them in my collection. You did very well in identifying your stones. By the way, the gem chart is so, so wrong. Please don't go by it for definite identification of your stones. You actually had most of them identified correctly; unlike the chart you had at the end.
Hey! Thanks for the info. I'm a rock/crystal gal myself. I agree with a lot of your IDs, but I believe 5 was likely resin or quartz coated in resin. It felt like plastic to me. I highly doubt they'd include something like a Herkimer diamond in there because this calendar was made in China, and Herkimers are specific to NY. For number 18, chrysocolla is a deeper blue/green and has more variation in color, is softer than this one was, and is way too fancy for a cheap calendar like this in my opinion. I'm almost positive it was aventurine. Raw aventurine tends to have that milky/chalky look to it. Number 19 could be apatite , but I'm leaning towards dyed quartz because it was translucent, VERY blue, and didn't have much variation in color. I definitely agree on the chart being bonkers. Like I said in the video, this was a knock-off calendar so I wasn't expecting anything high quality or accurate descriptions. At least it was way better than the one I got last year!
@@moonriserocks , you're welcome for any help that I can provide. It's hard to do any accurate identification of stones when all you have is images of the items in question. Obviously so much easier when they are solid objects a person can hold, feel and see. Take care.
Every time I see herkimer diamonds mentioned I just kick myself for living there for 2 years and literally never knowing about them at all until I moved back to Texas!
I think number 1 and number 18 on the chart could swap places.
I think day 3 was some kind of fluorite
Day 3 was pink Himalayan salt that's
How did you not notice that Gabbro and Moonstone are the wrong way around
Of course they didn't give you an introduction to rock, you already know who Rock is, why would you need to be introduced again?
Apatite can be very blue
The 3rd one IS 🧂 lol
Ok, but hear me out, tumble some seashells
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Edit- moon stone and gabbro should be swapped lol😅
They look more t like the reference when swapped
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