Well...a picture is worth a thousand words...
I had to resize this several times to make it small enough for LE's requirements. In doing so, I lost some of the clarity of the photo, but you can see that the goldstone on the bottom is far more sparkly than the one on top. The one on top is the gifted goldstone from Val. It certainly looked nice in rock form, but the sparkles seem to have gotten lost in the stringer. I'll probably still use it, but you can see that the sparkle is barely there. Perhaps when I use it some of the sparkle will still show.