[Rockhounds] Record Oregon sunstone found?

[Tim Fisher]

Yes, it was found at the Dust Devil by a digger last week. It is 
surely the largest single facetable stone I have seen from the mine. 
It apparently came from a giant fractured crystal (virtually all of 
them are). Terry Ensell saw it right after he dug it but I don't 
think he took a pic. The color was maybe A- grade (I haven't seen a 
single AAA red stone come from the area for several years now). But, 
there could be larger schiller or straw-colored stones from the same 
general locality, and surely are elsewhere. There are very large 
sunstone crystals near Spencer ID (actually just over the border in 
WY). There are also very large single red stones coming from the 
Ponderosa mine about 100 miles NE of Plush. I would call it the 
largest single red sunstone crystal known from the Rabbit Hills area deposits.

At 07:28 PM 7/16/2007, you wrote:
>Kids,
>
>I read an article in the Oregonian newspaper yesterday about a 
>record 1096? carat sunstone found at the Dust Devil mine I think by 
>a guy from Idaho.  Of course I recycled that paper yesterday and I 
>can't find the article on Oregonlive.com.  Has anyone else heard 
>about this?  The picture was black and white, but you could tell it 
>was red in the center in it looked to fill the guys palm!
>
>Wish it was me holding that thing!
>
>Dawn

Tim Fisher
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