Precious Opal (multi-color)

Item Description

Opal is a cool mineral because despite it's rather simplistic chemistry (it's essentially Quartz with water content), it's a notably diverse and interesting species for that fact that can range from opaque to completely transparent, and is found in every color of the rainbow. Some of the best contemporary examples of the beautiful Precious Opals feature dazzling multi-color flashes. Going back several years ago, the Tsehay Mewcha area (comprising countless small dig sites) in Ethiopia produced some amazing pieces of multi-color Precious Opal. These specimens are some of the most brilliantly colorful and eye-catching pieces of Opal from any locality in decades. This piece is a wonderful specimen featuring a gemmy patch of Precious Opal with eye-catching flashes of blue, green, yellow, gold, and pink when rotated in the light. Even in low light, the color flash is visible and beautiful, but I want to stress that the video makes the piece look more intense than it really does in person, it's just the nature of the material when you're trying to capture it on video. Specimen weight is 2.96 grams.