Benitoite: California's Rare Find

On this week's #Unboxing, Natalie welcomes dear old friend Jay Boyle to talk about the unique gemstone #Benitoite! This California gemstone is known for its rarity and strong dispersion but lucky for us we have it both cut and in rough form! Watch as Natalie and Jay discuss its unique qualities and check out this gorgeous stone!

#JTV is one of the leading experts on gemstones and is the best source on YouTube for all things gem related. Featuring #gem history, the science behind the stones, #gemstones in pop culture, and much more, you too can become a gem expert by immersing yourself in JTV’s channel. Natalie, our host, is a Graduate Gemologist and an Applied Jewelry Professional.

[NotAppIicabIe]

I am soo happy to see this. Benitoite is so pretty I didn't expect yall to cover it. ✌

[Annemariekira]

I am happy . i will get a nice benitoit in the next few days. Sapphire blue color. 5×3 mm in size. very small inclusions

[wendyshaw]

Thanks guys for answering my request to do benitoite. I have 3 of these stones & some rough.

[qhforge]

We in the Sacramento mineral society were lucky enough to have one of the guys who still have access to the site, and has mined it with his club for years, come up and give us an excellent in-depth account of the history of the mine. He also brought out specimens of high quality for us to look at. It was amazing.

[valerietubens]

OMG I LOOOVVVEEEE BENITOITE THERE MY FAV GEM 💗😭💞 I literally made a cartoon "Steven Univers" version when I was younger and also about a Red Beryl they are my 2 fav rare gems! So beautiful!! I'm so happy that you guys FINALLY talked about them 😭👏💞💗✌✌✌✌✌✌

[imari]

The color reminds me of Ceylon sapphire and London blue topaz. Beautiful stone. Thanks Jay and Natalie peace!!

[deborahellenberger]

enjoyed Jay and his humour. Thank you.

[romanmartha]

Never heard of this before, fascinating! My grandfather's name is Benito, so the name really caught my attention :]

[nicolasespinoza]

This was a great video. It is my first time watching. I will definitely be watching lots more. I love your energy my friend! I think I will go try to find some Benitoite. I am inspired from watching your video. I am close to the mine. I will keep you posted if I go. Take care.

[dragonmumles]

Love your guest ✌love the stone! Have him on more - you guys have great "chemistry" 😁

[-Slinger-]

Natalie, that top/dress looks awesome on you 😍

[Pearlescent-stylus]

I think I heard of Benitoite from houseki no kuni btw please do an episode on phosphophyllite I really wanna know more

[sarahb]

Just before we got engaged we went to California and selected a gorgeous pear cut benitoite for the ring, had it sent away to be set and sent to the last location of our visit to the USA. I love rare-stone engagement rings and mine especially -no one I know has ever heard of benitoite until I show it to them.

[jenniferflorio]

✌ thank you Natalie and Jay! Love these YouTube shows

[fritzexclusive]

Love love love again from Philippines! 💙

[dwdE]

Hello Jay & Natalie, nice to see U Jay on YouTube. I use to see U on some of the awesome Jtv gem shows with Mandy & Tom. I see you also love Benitoite are state gemstone. We had some large samples of the crystal in rough lying around in our small city Santa Cruz museum. They found they were the biggest crystals on record. The crystals were lying around for decades gathering dust. I think they are are now in the Smithsonian. Also just for interest I like to mentioned, I happen to find a nice random sample of the crystals in in gravel matrix while walking across local rail road tracks. The crystals were in rail gravel mix that showed small blue crystals in sample. I tracked the mix down to a plant that mines gravel close to the mine with in about 80 miles.

[blessedone]

I've never heard of it before but I absolutely love it...

[carolinekleo]

Thank you so much, I really loved this episode!

[AndrewJ]

We need Jay back for that awesome jungle helicopter story! Learned so much from this channel. Keep making these awesome videos that have quite possibly the best soundtracks on youtube.

[catfishuntermiller]

Hiya, ✌ ✌ ✌ loved the video and your guest, hiya Jay I hope your back on the show, I would like to hear more stories. ✌ ✌ ✌
I hope y'all have a great day.