Moonstone Wholesale
Moonstone is a feldspar gemstone known for its soft glow, gentle colors, and floating moonlike sheen. This wholesale moonstone collection includes polished stones, jewelry pieces, beads, towers, spheres, palm stones, carvings, and other products for crystal shops, gift stores, jewelry makers, and metaphysical retailers.
Natural moonstone can vary in body color, transparency, inclusions, and flash strength. For wholesale buyers, the key points are sheen visibility, polish quality, size consistency, cracks, chips, and whether the product style fits resale, jewelry making, gifts, or display use.
Moonstone FAQ
How can you tell if moonstone is real?
Real moonstone usually shows a soft, floating sheen that shifts as the stone moves under light. It may also have natural inclusions, internal lines, cloudy areas, or slight variation between pieces. Glass, opalite, or imitation materials often look too uniform, too glassy, or show a fixed glow that does not move naturally. For higher-value moonstone, buyers should check the material name, supplier details, photos under light, and whether the stone is classic moonstone, rainbow moonstone, or another feldspar material.
What colors of moonstone are common in wholesale products?
Common moonstone colors include white, cream, gray, peach, pink, green, brown, and dark gray. Some pieces show blue sheen, silver sheen, or rainbow flash. Color and flash strength can vary from piece to piece, especially in natural stone batches.
What should buyers check when choosing wholesale moonstone?
The most important points are body color, sheen strength, polish quality, size consistency, cracks, chips, and how visible the flash is under light. For jewelry-making materials, hole quality, bead size, strand consistency, and surface finish are also important.
What is the difference between moonstone and labradorite?
Moonstone and labradorite both belong to the feldspar family. Classic moonstone usually shows a soft white, silver, or blue glow, while labradorite often shows stronger flashes of blue, green, gold, or orange. Many stones sold as rainbow moonstone are actually transparent or translucent labradorite.
What is the difference between moonstone and opal?
Moonstone is a feldspar gemstone with a soft floating glow called adularescence. Opal is a different gemstone material and is better known for colorful play-of-color. Moonstone looks more like moving moonlight under the surface, while opal often shows brighter color patches or fiery flashes.
Where is moonstone found?
Moonstone is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Tanzania, Madagascar, Brazil, Norway, Australia, Mexico, the United States, and other regions. Sri Lanka is known for fine blue-sheen moonstone, while India is an important source for commercial moonstone in many colors and product styles.
Why does moonstone glow?
Moonstone glows because of adularescence, also called the moonstone effect. Light enters thin internal layers of feldspar and scatters inside the stone, creating a soft white, silver, or blue glow that appears to float and move as the stone turns.