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30mm Gold Stone Puff Heart Goldstone: Everything Else. The secret was kept for years until the Chinese, it is said, discovered how to make the gemstone. Goldstone is a lab produced stone. The rich gold color is alive with sparkling glitter. Very nice! This mesmerizing, manmade gemstone can be viewed as flashy or elegant, depending on how you use it. Goldstone is a type of glass with tiny copper dots visible throughout the stone. A special process is needed to create the stone's metallic gleam; copper salts are added to colored liquid glass. The mass of glass is held at a specific temperature for a length of time, and then allowed to cool. As the glass cools, the salts turn into copper crystals, creating that unique sparkle. Goldstone is often mistaken for sunstone, a feldspar. Goldstone reportedly originated with Italian monks trying to make gold out of other materials (alchemy). Nowadays, the best examples come from China, instead of Italy and Austria.
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