Fire Opal (with color flash)

Item Description

Opals are incredibly diverse gems, found all over the world in variety of styles and colors. Opal is famous for showing beautiful multi-color arrays, particularly Black Opals, but also sometimes in Fire / Precious Opals. Some of the most attractive and impressive Fire Opals in recent year are those that have come form Ethiopia. These gems rival some of the top Mexican or Australian stones for color, gemminess and the ever popular "Contra Luz" effect. This stone beautiful light golden color in the body of the gem with good internal clarity, and In reflected light it shows the highly desirable and seldom seen color flash with a beautiful rainbow-like array of color ! Now the color flash is best seen in sunlight or with a strong flashlight against a black background, and this stone was photographed under a strong flashlight to show the color flash. When strongly lit, this stone shows flashes of red, orange, gold, green and a slight amount of blue. What makes the stone so significant is that it's actually FACETED, not the typical cabochons that we're used to seeing in this material. It's a very attractive stone, and would make a great piece of jewelry, or would stand on its own as a beautiful gem. Valued $1,044.00 retail.