Oregon desert gemstones

[waco]

Earlier this spring the wife and I travel down to the south eastern part of Oregon just outside a small town called Plush.

The Oregon Sunstone is our state gemstone. The wife and I have recently taking up rock hounding as a hobby.

We found quite a few small stones, most were just chips but a few were decent sized.

A small handful of them were big enough with good enough clarity to be sent off to get faceted. We droped these stones off with the Rock and gem shop about 3 1/2 months ago and I just got them back the other day. They turned out a lot nicer than I had hoped. They were sent off to Thailand to be cut.
Here are some before and after pictures. Thanks for looking. Walter.

 

[Brad]

Wow. I see some new jewelry in your wife's future.

 

[35 shooter]

Wow, they really turned out very nice. Thanks for sharing Waco!

 

[Rick]

Quite impressive and just think, they were just laying out in the desert.

If you don't mind my asking, what does it cost to have them cut & polished like that?

 

[waco]

If you don't mind my asking, what does it cost to have them cut & polished like that?

Not at all. He charged me $7 per finished carat. Most all the pale yellow stones are pretty common. They are worth $8-9 a carat retail.
The red one is more rare. $75-85 a carat. That stone is worth about $365-375.
I cost me $176 for them all. Roughly 25.5 carats if I remember.
One gram=five carats.