Moonstone Value & Market Price
A market-wide average across qualities and sizes. Your stone's value depends on carat, color, clarity, cut, treatment, and origin.
What is moving moonstone prices
- News & Events: weighing on prices
- Metal Prices: pushing prices up
About moonstone
Moonstone is renowned for its captivating adularescence, a phenomenon that produces a soft glow and a play of light across its surface. Typically found in shades of colorless, gray, blue, and peach, it has a hardness of 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale, making it suitable for various jewelry applications.
Where moonstone comes from
- Sri Lanka (~40% of supply)
- India (~30% of supply)
- Myanmar (~15% of supply)
- Tanzania (~8% of supply)
What is your moonstone worth?
Market averages will not price your stone. GemstoneAI identifies gems and jewelry from a photo, checks authenticity and treatment signals, and gives you a real market valuation in seconds. Free to try.
How much is moonstone worth?
The GemstoneAI market index for moonstone is $62 per carat as of 2026-08-17. That is a market-wide average across qualities, not a quote for a specific stone. Individual value depends on carat, color, clarity, cut, treatment, and origin.
How can I tell if my moonstone is real?
Visual tests alone are unreliable. GemstoneAI analyzes a photo of your stone for identity, treatment indicators, and authenticity signals, then estimates market value. It is free to try.
Is moonstone a good investment?
Over the past 30 days the moonstone index moved +5.8%. Gem prices move on supply, demand, and metal markets; treat any single stone as a collectible first and an asset second.