Gem Collecting for Beginners! | Quartz, Crystals

We're Unboxing the many strange shapes & forms of Quartz! We've got Scepters, Gwindels, Tessin & Faden habits, plus many more! Learn how these strange crystals grew and even how you could collect them all!

This gemstone unboxing episode centers around types of luster and gemstones. Luster is the shine or quality of light that reflects off the surface of different materials. Our hosts cover how luster can appear differently from gemstones and the different types of luster: vitreous, metallic, adamantine, silky, resinous, greasy, pearly, and waxy with high or dull luster.

Today, we're taking you to the biggest gem showcase in the world! Rebecca & Christopher are gem collecting on a budget, trying to find the most impressive specimens for under three hundred dollars! Discover the classic beauties and interesting oddities of the 2022 Tucson Gem & Mineral Show. From Celestine Geodes to fluorescent minerals to a whole new gem material in a sphere, this one's got it all!

In today's episode, we welcome special guest Shelly Sergent, curator of the Somewhere in the Rainbow Collection, who shows us some spectacular new gemstone designs! Inspired by poetry, books, and wildlife, we promise you haven't seen pieces like this ever before! Whether you are a fan of the arts or science, you're going to love what we've got in store for you today!