Gemstone Discoveries of the 20th Century | Benitoite, Tsavorite, Paraiba Tourmaline

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As you may know, gemology is a relatively young field of study compared to some of the older and more developed sciences. It should come as no surprise that many of the now famous gemstones have been discovered within the last 100 years! Today, Rob will take us through a timeline of some of the most notable gemstone discoveries of the 20th century!
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@kameronmatthews2022 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are literally the highlight of my week. I’m a huge gemstone enthusiast and an amateur gemologist, I’ve learnt quite a lot of what I know from this channel! 🤩💍🌟💎

@thundermind5572 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, love the show. Been a rock hound for 50 years. After finding real glacial till loaded with all sort of precious and semi precious stones about a year ago I started studying gems. What a huge world. I dig the color and brilliance of the Utah beryl. I learn a lot watching y'alls show. Thanks.

@soomcire Жыл бұрын

Just talked to my kids last week about going to sift tailings at the Benitoite mine, this is my sign to book our visit!!

@rogerhargreaves2272 Жыл бұрын

Great video Rob, yea I’d like to see a part two to this. Maybe include Hiddenite, the Spodumene that Kunz got upset about because he couldn’t name it. Oh, my favourite here was the Tsavorite Garnet. Tanzanite was a wonderful choice though. Thanks for another great share. 😀

@melaber77 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen that last type of tourmaline, so that was a nice surprise, but I have to say the red beryl would be priceless to me!

@heatherdiditknitandcrochet Жыл бұрын

Tanzanite is my fave but that tourmaline - wowza!!!!!! So prettyyyyy!!!!

@patrickkillilea5225 2 жыл бұрын

I could say the Pala Mining area in Southern Ca. is interesting and has produced many amazing things. Alot of good stories like with the Kunzite... I live close by and have been there to sift the tailing piles to find gemstones, which there are many. Pretty fun and great experience.

@firewoman7722 Жыл бұрын

Is there a pay-to-dig area?

@oscarmedina1303 Жыл бұрын

@@firewoman7722 Yes. Look up "Oceanview Mine". $75 to dig. You can also buy bags of tailings at the Oceanview mine and at the Pala Mining company nearby. My wife and I spent the day digging. We found terminated quartz crystals, Kunzite, Tourmaline, Auquamarine, some Morganite and tiny garnets. We also brought home some great specimens of pegmatitite. We are planning to do it again, when the temps get cooler.

@sarahoilman5086 Жыл бұрын

I have been there and Brazil Mining my fav...Tourmaline :)

@kated2847 Жыл бұрын

Paraiba tourmaline is my favourite, I think it looks like the very best colours of the Caribbean.

@heathervannatter364 2 жыл бұрын

Tsavorite is my fav!! Love love love. So pretty. Thanks!! Enjoy the day.

@philodendron6 2 жыл бұрын

Always a joy to watch.

@largent45 2 жыл бұрын

Tanzanite is my absolute favorite gem ever! Thank you for information and highlighting some of those rare beauties that we just dont ever get to see enough of! Honestly, they were all awesome! Thanks for sharing!

@TallowTheQuoll 2 жыл бұрын

1:40 noice some more *Benitoite* content let's gooooo 🙏

@krikat3485 Жыл бұрын

Tanzanite and Tsavorite are favourites, from this group.

@VincentVuna Жыл бұрын

Another great video! My fav would either be Tanzanite or Paraiba Tourmaline. I genuinly didnt know that it was so expencive compared to the other varieties. Thanks for the knowledge as always :)

@hige1234 Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the Gemtastic Bear Host.

@firewoman7722 Жыл бұрын

Benitoite 💙 because I live a couple hours from the mine & we want to go pay-to-dig some weekend soon, when the weather cools off.

@roberthogg4507 Жыл бұрын

I stumbled upon your channel a couple of months ago. Loving it!

@moxiemcmahon Жыл бұрын

The tourmaline is my favorite because that color in a gem is my fav. Do videos on this any every other thing your team thinks of😀

@sandmaker Жыл бұрын

Cool! Larimar is my favorite.😷⚒

@maryannlamb5695 Жыл бұрын

Tanzanite is my fave too, and I would live to learn about the discoveries from other centuries.

@SharpAssKnittingNeedles Жыл бұрын

Would love to have a loose Tsavorite on the shelf just to look at! Also, yay more of pretty Rob!

@bethlovesthings Жыл бұрын

YAAAAS. Please do more of these 😍

@RockyMountainBear 2 жыл бұрын

Cool beans. I gotta go with Bixbite aka Red Beryl, representing Utah! The Thomas mountain range is less than 2 hours from me. I really need to get out there ASAP.

@LostWithoutHer Жыл бұрын

I love the electric blue of the Paraiba but I've also seen deep violetish purple and bluish green tourmalines from Paraiba Brazil, Nigeria, and Mozambique all called Paraiba tourmaline which suggests that Paraiba isn't actually a reference to the blue color. That and considering that the blue variety is a treated stone makes it sorta confusing.

@brucevanderzanden9638 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. Black opal and tanzanite are my favorites!

@icatz 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Love your hair.

@joeporter4970 Жыл бұрын

Great vid. I like all of the stones but I really like the look of the larimar.

@sherrizanoli1398 2 жыл бұрын

I have been on the search for Benitonite and own all the others.

@tammyphillips6299 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I like tanzanite too! 🥰

@tammyphillips6299 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite is tsavorite and of course paraiba tourmaline. 🥰

@IvanLopez-zh3xz Жыл бұрын

Really cool!!!

@ruhsexperimentsgliesperimentid Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@davidhubert949 2 жыл бұрын

Campbell bridges also found a one time pocket of extremely amazing epidote in Kenya, he discovered it before he passed away, sadly. Luckily i have 5 crystals from that pocket lol

@wpmsings 9 ай бұрын

You are my favorite gem!

@ingorichter649 2 жыл бұрын

Paraiba Tourmaline is very exciting with its electric appearance. I have a big well shaped crystall, not eyeclean, more with a jardin of inclusions comparable to an emerald. This jardin supports perfectly the electric neonlike appearance. This fantatic stone is setted rough as main stone in one of my self designed jewelry which was handcrafted by my experienced goldsmith of my long term choice. 💎

@lisahill3502 Жыл бұрын

Tanzinite is my all time favorite but i love all crystals

@jillarbogast9946 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite is all of them however I really,really like morganite or Pink morganite. I so enjoy your presentation THANK YOU. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🌻🌻🌸🌸🌼🌼🌺🌺 WYOMING.

@trenton6621 2 жыл бұрын

Again just here to say i love you

@genewilliams6966 2 жыл бұрын

Tanzanite was my favorite.

@nancyspradling1131 2 жыл бұрын

I loved the Morganite!

@delrey884 Жыл бұрын

great video!

@gems Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@foofyastralpunk5875 Жыл бұрын

I love seeing this type of video! More please 👍😃. The last set of gems could be called gooseite, or maybe chickenite, but they are not nearly as beautiful as the real "duck" Paraiba tourmaline.

@ResortDog 2 жыл бұрын

You should do a history of Opal Fields since the Virgin Valley Nevada black opals discovery was in 1902?

@saedofee9014 Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro

@aaronramsden1657 Жыл бұрын

Very cool

@milanopiano 2 жыл бұрын

Tanzanite for sure! Trichroism all the way.

@karengarcia8587 Жыл бұрын

Wow, to learn how they discover these gemstones though out history is amazing.😯💎📖 There's some gemstones I never heard of before.🤔 It's fascinating to know where they come from🌐🗺, get their color and how they got named by places or people how discovered them.🧑‍🏫 My favorites are kinzite, Morganite💖 and the light blue one named after the ocean.💙🌊 Yes, please😀 do another history video like this. Good video.😊👍💎

@StarScapesOG 2 жыл бұрын

I've talked with claim owners at topaz mountain, they informed me that red beryl is becoming more and more rare and the public lands look like they are almost picked clean of it...

@ResortDog 2 жыл бұрын

You have to hard rock mine and mostly people cant get up for it.

@StarScapesOG 2 жыл бұрын

@@ResortDog that and you have to own a claim in that area to hard rock mine.... otherwise it's no power tools, no heavy equipment and no blasting.

@tiffanyalloyd Жыл бұрын

It was an adventure! And found some too!

@donniebroadwayjr3321 Жыл бұрын

Love that larimar

@Liza-ix4hu Жыл бұрын

Red beryl my favourite ❤️

@monicacsm9920 Жыл бұрын

Wow thankx for the vid...Iam not so knowledgeable with gems but if i can find a personal sponsor for detectors then i can scan my country...Zambia..not known for any gemstones cause no one looked..

@celestialblueceleste2511 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a video about gemstones and art through history unless you did one already. Gemstones used as different types of painting materials or carved into sculptures? Thanks

@gems Жыл бұрын

You may enjoy this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gJhjoa1lu62al3k.html

@markgarin6355 Жыл бұрын

What a specialized form of geology. Kunzite high in Lithium. But tanzenite isn't naturally blue.

@GrimsGhostG59 2 жыл бұрын

Can we do one for 21st century as well???

@jonnapolling5096 Жыл бұрын

what about rainbow mayanite an pink amethyst from Argenitinie?

@cerberaodollam Жыл бұрын

Hungary has black opal?! Whaaaaaat. I live here and never heard of it

@NataliaJuliaNowak Жыл бұрын

You didn't mention about charoite. It was discovered in the 1940s and described in the 1970s.

@CivilianFatBody Жыл бұрын

I have a topaz with bixbyite!!

@jairprado5538 2 жыл бұрын

👉👉👉👉✌👈Maravilha

@adibiswas9202 Жыл бұрын

I think black ston

@sylmaron5859 2 жыл бұрын

Let's rename Morganite.

@Heterandria4mosa Жыл бұрын

I think we should call it Millennialite because it the perfect "Millennial Pink" color and it was discovered in the last century of the millennium. also us Millennials need a stone.

@sylmaron5859 Жыл бұрын

@@Heterandria4mosa I'm with that.