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General information on sunstones

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GPS Coordinates, if known: W 119.87244 N 42.72584
Town/region: Rabbit Hills Basin, near Plush, Harney Co.
State, country: Harney Co. Oregon
Tips for finding it: Use a topo Map, but its easy to find.
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Tools needed: Pick, Shovel, Screens, hammers





Special skills needed: Willingness to work hard and stay at it! Here are some photos of cut and rough gems:


Identification tips: Sunstone GemsSunstone Rough




Additional helpful resources:
Here is alinks to a website with info on hunting sunstones:

Dig your own Oregon Sunstones

For More information about Sunstones as a gemstone:
Sunstones - The Gem

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KevinKirschman Sunstone hunting 5 Nov 27 2012, 3:23 PM EST by pvjjh
Thread started: Nov 25 2012, 12:51 AM EST  Watch
Sunstones are much more valuable and rare than moonstone. It's easy to do an Internet search to see how different a stone one is from the other.
There are several very good places to fee dig for sunstones (all in south central Oregon) all situated very near a free/public rockhound set-aside area. As you may suspect, if you've been a rockhound for very long, the fee dig spots are much more likely to provide high quality results in a reasonable time frame. But, you surely can find worthwhile stones on the public dig area, too.
As mentioned in Special Skills Needed, persistence is the key to finding sunstones. You may find one of the very highest quality simply sitting on the surface after the wind moves the sand about, but thank the rock gods, if you do. It's a gift... Usually, it takes all day and many five gallon buckets worth of sifted gravel, busting up basalt "clods", and skin that matches that of stirring wet cement all day with your bare hands (wear good gloves!!).
Your most useful tool, other than the required shovel and a couple pairs of leather gloves, is a shaker screen (half down to quarter inch mesh) on rollers set at belly height, on a wooden frame. The pay sites usually provide this tool and even shovels and buckets like as not. It's their business (their life, really...) and they want you to be successful and happy to return again. They have all been, to my experience, folks of the highest degree of honesty, integrity, and friendliness. I look forward to meeting with them each year I can return. You either pay up front for the day, keep all you find, or you pay a very fair fee (far less than retail and with wastage calculated in) for what you want to keep. You can often also arrange to stay on-site at the fee dig locations as the closest place for motels is Lakeview, a long drive back after a hard day of working the rock. Or, you can find a few trailer spaces in Adel, south of Plush. Have fun!
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treasureseaker1 sunstones (page: 1 2) 25 Jun 7 2008, 8:50 PM EDT by pvjjh
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I'm not sure what the diffrence is between a sunstone and a moonstone.They look alike to me. Is one more valueable than the other? I would like to find a sunstone on my next vacation. Is there any advice anyone can tell me in searching for one?
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