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I now accept electronic payments via PayPal! If you have a PayPal account please feel free to try the shopping cart by clicking the cart button next to each item. Under "Quantity" please put the number of OUNCES you want for mine run/tumbling quality rough and the number of GRAMS for everything else. Then, in your note, specify any details. Since S&H is by weight, I will bill S&H charges to your PayPal account later. If you don't want to use PayPal, please use the order form located at the bottom of the page.

These are classified by grade. I charge for the whole stone, regardless of whether it is all color or surrounded by clear (all colored stones have a clear halo). You'll find that others on the web are charging 4 - 20 times what I am for the same thing. Visit them if you like, then come back here. I'll select the best of what I have available for you. ALL THESE STONES ARE FROM THE DUST DEVIL MINE. GO DIG AT THE DUST DEVIL NOW! They are good people! Here are some tips for orienting & cutting sunstones from the Dust Devil folks. The order form is linked at the bottom of this page.

The sunstones come in the following grades:

Small champagne/straw/pink schiller tumbling quality: $0.50/oz. ($17.64/kg)

Good for tumbling and practice faceting. You can get 1+ carat stones from many of these. Size ranges from a carat to over 5 grams.

Available Quantity: Pounds!

Straw to champagne colored faceting practice stones - over 5 carats to under 10 carats (2 grams): $0.05/gram (less than 1 cent/carat!)

These will cut you some decent stones. Practice on them before you cut the larger, more expensive grades.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT

Below is one of my nice clear stones (actually it's very faint pink) faceted by Bill Mitzell of the Mt. Hood Rock Club LKMYRKS@cs.com.

Medium Straw to champagne colored faceting stones - about 10 to 25 carats (2 to 5 grams): $0.10/gram (2 cents/carat!)

These will cut you some beautiful stones. NOTE: I do not cobb stones; these may or may not yield 10 carat faceted stones! Compare to WHOLESALE prices 4 times this.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT

Large Straw to champagne colored faceting & carving stones - over 25 carats (5 grams) to about 12 grams: $0.50/gram (10 cents/carat!)

These will cut you some exceptional stones, and are suitable for carving.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT

Copper Schiller - about 4 carats to 15 carats (3 grams): $0.25/gram (5 cents/carat)

Some part to most of the stone shows a shimmering copper effect. These will cut you some beautiful shimmering stones. Make the cuts simple, non-brilliant or brilliant. Orient the schiller parallel to the table for a brilliant effect.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT

Intense Copper Schiller - about 4 carats to 10 carats (2 grams): $0.25/carat ($1.25/gram)

These will cut you some beautiful shimmering stones. Make the cuts simple, non-brilliant. Orient the schiller parallel to the table for a brilliant effect. Orient it perpendicular for a subtle shimmer. Below is one of my intense schillers (this one is a "snowflake" schiller) stones faceted by Bill Mitzell of the Mt. Hood Rock Club LKMYRKS@cs.com.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT!

Large Intense Copper Schiller - about 10-30 carats (2-6 grams): $0.40/carat ($2.00/gram)

These will cut you some beautiful shimmering stones. Make the cuts simple, non-brilliant. Orient the schiller parallel to the table for a brilliant effect. Orient it perpendicular for a subtle shimmer. These also make great carving stones! Sorry the schiller doesn't show up so great in the pic; it's very very hard to get it to show on a scanner & I don't have a macro lens for my cheap digital camera :(

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT!

Pale Colored Stones - about 5 to 15 carats (3 grams): $0.15/carat ($0.75/gram)

I have lots of stones that show a pale peach to light pink hue (pic below). Some have fairly intense schiller as well. Some are color "dots"; some have the pale color in a larger area. These will cut you some delicate hued stones with a peach to pink hue. Orient the color in the stone to flood the stone with color.

Available Quantity: 35 grams

Light Red Schiller - about 5 carats to 15 grams: $0.35/carat ($1.75/gram)

I now have lots of reds that really aren't up to my standards of color intensity (pic below). If you can't afford the brilliant red or watermelon stones, these will cut you some beautiful colored stones with a dark peach to pale red hue. Orient the color in the stone to flood the stone with color.

Available Quantity: 120 grams

Red Dot / Green Dot / Copper Dot - about 5 carats to 10 grams: $1.00/carat ($5.00/gram)

Can't afford brilliant red or watermelon stones? These will cut you some beautiful small colored stones to a carat or possibly larger. Orient the color dot in the bottom of the stone to flood the stone with red or copper. I have a very few watermelon and green dots available for $2.00/carat.

Available Quantity: 65 grams

Below are a few of my red dot stones faceted by Bill Mitzell of the Mt. Hood Rock Club LKMYRKS@cs.com.

Red Schiller / Brilliant Red - about 5 carats to 10 grams: $2.00/carat ($10/gram)

These will cut you some beautiful larger colored stones from a carat on up. Orient the color in the bottom of the stone to flood the stone with red or red schiller. The stones on the left are clear reds; those on the right are red schillers. Note that ALL colored stones from the Dust Devil contain some schiller; it is a distraction in the brilliant reds so most cutters orient the stone to cancel out the schiller. Visit the Dust Devil Mine's site to find out methods of cancelling the schiller in your faceted stones!

Available Quantity: A FEW STONES!

Below on the left are a few of my reds faceted by Bill Mitzel of the Mt. Hood Rock Club LKMYRKS@cs.com. The big stone is a 9.14 carat red schiller checkerboard pineapple.

Small Intense Red Schiller - about 1 to 6 carats: $0.75/carat ($3.75/gram)

I finally got some small reds that really aren't up to my standards of size. If you can't afford the larger brilliant red or watermelon stones, these will cut you some beautiful small colored stones from a carat to about 3 carats. Orient the color in the stone to flood the stone with red.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT!

Watermelon - about 5 to 25 carats (5 grams): $3.00/carat ($15/gram)

Watermelons are red surrounded by a halo of green in the center. These will cut you some beautiful larger colored stones from a carat on up. Leave a border of clear around the rind to give the stone a beautiful red/green effect.

Available Quantity: SOLD OUT!

A 2 carat dichroic watermelon worth about $1,600...

and a 48.3 carat watermelon carving from a 110 carat stone. Valued at $4,830!

Green: $6.00/carat ($30/gram)

I have one green but I am cutting it for myself. So nah nah!

Available Quantity: NONE

Here it is! Wish me luck :)

More examples of faceted stones. From left to right: Red dot oval, red/green bar cut, intense schiller square cushion, schiller oval and round brilliant pairs.

Pics of my attempts at faceting sunstones (don't laugh!)

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