Benitoite: California's Rare Find
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2020
- On this week's #Unboxing, Natalie welcomes dear old friend Jay Boyle to talk about the unique gemstone #Benitoite! This California gemstone is known for its rarity and strong dispersion but lucky for us we have it both cut and in rough form! Watch as Natalie and Jay discuss its unique qualities and check out this gorgeous stone!
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I am soo happy to see this. Benitoite is so pretty I didn't expect yall to cover it. ✌
We in the Sacramento mineral society were lucky enough to have one of the guys who still have access to the site, and has mined it with his club for years, come up and give us an excellent in-depth account of the history of the mine. He also brought out specimens of high quality for us to look at. It was amazing.
OMG I LOOOVVVEEEE BENITOITE THERE MY FAV GEM 💗😭💞 I literally made a cartoon "Steven Univers" version when I was younger and also about a Red Beryl they are my 2 fav rare gems! So beautiful!! I'm so happy that you guys FINALLY talked about them 😭👏💞💗✌✌✌✌✌✌
Just before we got engaged we went to California and selected a gorgeous pear cut benitoite for the ring, had it sent away to be set and sent to the last location of our visit to the USA. I love rare-stone engagement rings and mine especially -no one I know has ever heard of benitoite until I show it to them.
Never heard of this before, fascinating! My grandfather's name is Benito, so the name really caught my attention :]
Thanks guys for answering my request to do benitoite. I have 3 of these stones & some rough.
The color reminds me of Ceylon sapphire and London blue topaz. Beautiful stone. Thanks Jay and Natalie peace!!
Thank you so much, I really loved this episode!
I think I heard of Benitoite from houseki no kuni btw please do an episode on phosphophyllite I really wanna know more
Fantastic video, thank you Jay! ✌✌✌
✌ thank you Natalie and Jay! Love these RUclips shows
Thanks Jennifer
Love this! Tons of awesome info!
Love your guest ✌love the stone! Have him on more - you guys have great "chemistry" 😁
Thanks Leslye. Keep watching, more are coming
The variety of hues are so so pretty😍
This was a great video. It is my first time watching. I will definitely be watching lots more. I love your energy my friend! I think I will go try to find some Benitoite. I am inspired from watching your video. I am close to the mine. I will keep you posted if I go. Take care.
thanks for coming on Jay, that was interesting! ✌
I've never heard of it before but I absolutely love it...
Hello Jay & Natalie, nice to see U Jay on RUclips. I use to see U on some of the awesome Jtv gem shows with Mandy & Tom. I see you also love Benitoite are state gemstone. We had some large samples of the crystal in rough lying around in our small city Santa Cruz museum. They found they were the biggest crystals on record. The crystals were lying around for decades gathering dust. I think they are are now in the Smithsonian. Also just for interest I like to mentioned, I happen to find a nice random sample of the crystals in in gravel matrix while walking across local rail road tracks. The crystals were in rail gravel mix that showed small blue crystals in sample. I tracked the mix down to a plant that mines gravel close to the mine with in about 80 miles.
thanks dwdE1151
Love love love again from Philippines! 💙
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Natalie, that top/dress looks awesome on you 😍
Thank you Jay ✌️
thanks for watching; fun to do too!
✌🏽, I loved this video. I am learning so much about this I wish I would’ve taken us up as a career.
So, I'm going to this year's Tucson gem show. It ends on my birthday (Feb 16). I'm turning 20 this year.
Beautiful gem
Loved Jay ✌🏼
Hiya, ✌ ✌ ✌ loved the video and your guest, hiya Jay I hope your back on the show, I would like to hear more stories. ✌ ✌ ✌
I hope y'all have a great day.
Thanks Catfishunter Miller. Stay tuned to Natalie's JTV RUclips channel; more are coming all the time. We have shot a few more; stay tuned.
Please come back for another vid ✌️
I am happy . i will get a nice benitoit in the next few days. Sapphire blue color. 5×3 mm in size. very small inclusions
i love your channel :)
We need Jay back for that awesome jungle helicopter story! Learned so much from this channel. Keep making these awesome videos that have quite possibly the best soundtracks on youtube.
Thanks! You can find the helicopter story here: ruclips.net/video/DyAme9UGImA/видео.html
Natalie loves Southern California as much as me!
I'm a geologist too, I went to Humboldt State
So amazed that there's a mineral that's more rare than diamonds and is from my home state yes I'm so so happy for this video love your guys's channel
There are sooo many minerals more rare than diamond :D Diamond just has a high marked price, it's not that rare.
Can you guys do a video on Roselite, it’s such a beautiful stone ☮️
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Aw I really hope he comes back. He seems really sweet.
thanks Julie!
✌ Was a great gem video
thanks Leviathan Umi
✌ Jay, thank you very much for being on RUclips. Also Natalie, could you tell me more about Pink Benitoite?
There are a small number of extremely rare pink benitoites that came from one small claim near the main benitoite mine, but for the most part they are so rare that they live mostly in myth. There aren’t public images available to prove their existence just documentation of that color being a possibility in the mineralogical and gemological records. There are a few stones that are blue or violet that have a pinkish component to their color but even this is extremely rare. Some colorless benitoites can be heat treated to produce a peachy orange to peachy pink-orange color. Not all colorless benitoite that are heated will change so the stones are another rarity on the market but this time there is enough availability that you can at least find pictures!
@@gems Even if public images of Pink Benitoite haven't been made yet, I'm still impressed with finding an image from the List of Visible Data Files on the Mineral Spectroscopy Server that shows multiple orange Benitoite crystals. Some of the crystals should be called Bi-color Benitoite or even Tri-color Benitoite with colors of orange, blue, and colorless together. It's quite amazing.
My name is Christopher✌️my name is Christopher and I love minerals. ATM my favorite is labradorite and I currently have a watermelon tourmaline. Now that I have seen benitoite I really can think of no other uncut sapphire-colored gem I would like to add to my collection. Thank you! 😊
My gosh, she is beyond beautiful! 🥴
Seeing as these go for a lot per carat , doubt this will be one i could ever get. Its a pretty stone.*peace/on laptop, no emojis*
I have seen a ‘Rainbow Lattice Sunstone’, from Australia, shown at Tucson. I would love to see what you can show us.💎🇦🇺
✌️Great video
Thank you Reyson Avila, glad you enjoyed it. fun to join in too.
How funny would it be if the guy who discovered Benitoite didn't discover Benitoite, but in fact Watermelon Tourmaline. Like, first failed at farming melons, then finds a new on in the ground ☮️
Its It's interesting that you mentioned this since the Himalayan mine is also in California that produces pink tourmaline
found 4 lb monoclinic diamond/ used tester and positive beeping do i have to certify and have mineral rights of my property that i found it on to sell?
✌🏼Jay!
Hey Krawdad's
I have a small piece of rough Benitoite set into a rose pendant.
I owned several claims near the Dallas Gem Mine.
In prospecting, (black lighting at night) not unusual to see Benitoite.; not my interest.
We found another source/location , which will not be disclosed.
Pink Benitoite has been found in Canada and Idaho.
The Franciscan range has many surprises and secrets. One of my favorite places.
Glad it is somewhat remote.
I went to the Benitoite mine today. I may have found a fairly large piece.
Epsilon Jay ɛɈ ⸋ Ȣ ƪ ϡ ϧ Ϯ ϗ ƕ ⸈ where?
I don’t usually comment but this stone has really peaked my curiosity.
So many questions so little time. How is this gemstone cut? Can it be cut in a cobichon(sic) style and if so what characters would it take on ? I know that you said that it is only found in Southern CA but could there be other places that have the same chemistry to produce it?
Benitoite is cut just like any other gem. There are always slight differences cutting stones due to the refractive index and cleavage, for example.
Benitoite is highly pleochroic, higher dispersion than diamond, and some crystals can be strongly zoned so these characteristics may be more apparent when made into a cabochon.
Benitoite is found in Japan, Russia, Czech Republic, Australia, and the US, namely Montana, Arkansas, and California but the gem quality material is only found in California. The geochemistry and formation conditions from that area of CA would be very hard to find elsewhere in the world. There were tectonic processes, volcanism, metamorphic melting, recrystallization and a whole host of things going on that can get confusing even for geologists.
JTV thank you for your response. It helped clear up a few things
and it GLOWS IN THE BLACK LIGHT!!!!!
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Would a 5 carat blue Benitoite or 5 carat blue Diamond be more highly valued monetarily speaking?
I’m from Cali lmaoo. I see some of these in gem quality on eBay that are 2.5 carats and up cheap. It’s from Arkansas Should I trust? I really want a gem quality eye clean look. I want atleast a 5-10 carat one 🥺
So gorgeous! ✌✌✌
i live in san benito county!!!! hollister
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BUT HOW CAN I GET THERE
COMING FROME L.A. CALIFORNIA????
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What wavelength range UV does Benotoite glow the brightest under?
how can i contact your SR. BUYER?
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It should be made clear that benitoite found in any place out side of California, has ONLY been found as microscopic crystals and very rarely deep blue. There has only ever been just one true gem baring deposit.
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Did he say a gem sweet or sweet
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Why did you not talk about how Benitoite glows under blacklight? Missed a good opportunity to talk about its unique qualities.
Benitoite like sapphire but not sapphire???
All avilebil for dall
✌🏻✌🏻✊🏻 adios white knuckle 😂
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Who else came from the minecraft Emerald ad????
I normally find it hard to stomach Natalie but she is an ass kicking awesome bro here when she's biting back on that old fool's BS! He's selling fake shit and she's calling him on it! Go Natalie, first time I've ever said that!
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✌What is the makeup of the host rock?
The host rock of the Benitoite in the New Idria District in CA is hydrothermally altered blueschist inclusions inside of the main serpentinite formation. Benitoite from other countries is typically associated with a type of serpentinite.
Unsubscribed. What a terrible way to be...
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