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Allan's Rise, a new field in the Coober Pedy region of Australia has produced some very good opal recently. Click here for some examples from the MK Collection. |
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Lightning Ridge Black Opal Multicolor Rolling Ribbon Flash - a very rare pattern This opal has total multicolor fire in a splendid rolling flash pattern. This is a combination of flagstone, ribbon and rolling flash. Every color imaginable is represented here. Some of the flags are solid color, others present a rolling rainbow total spectral effect. Rare colors such as violet and magenta are here in profusion, as well as strong displays of blues, greens, yellow and reds of many shades. Very showy!
0.56 carats. 6 mm x 8 mm in an N6 body tone. Very gaudy! This would be perfect for a ring stone, with the lively dancing colors changing at every slight movement of the stone. This is cut to a standard calibrated size and may fit right into a ready made setting, but it really deserves a custom designed gold setting with a little diamond or two.
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Lightning Ridge Electric Jelly Large beautiful oval cabachon. Orange, red, yellow, blue and green play of color in this fire opal. Huge and full of bright flake fire pattern. Almost impossible to photograph, this is a real dazzler in hand. Much more and brighter fire than pictures show.
14.3 carats, almost three grams of pure opal fire. Huge 21 mm x 31 mm. Perfect for a large and beautiful showy pendant.
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Lightning Ridge Crystal Brilliant green, blue and orange flake flashfire pattern. Very bright. Red and Orange flake fire shows particularly well in pendant orientation. Very flashy color display is a good choice for a ring stone.
Pictures show darker than actual opal. Colors are much brighter too. Very hard to photograph this opal. Photo #2 (top right) taken in hand shows body color best. Very pretty and showy in hand. Other backgrounds show opal as darker than it is. 1.08 carats. 8 mm x 10 mm. Pear shape for excellent ring or pendant.
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Red matching pair of Red Fire Opals. Cut from the same piece of opal rough, both of these opals match perfectly. Australian Coober Pedy Red Broadflash is directional and rolls across the faces of these gems. Red covers the faces in pendant position. Larger opal is 7.22 carats, 14 mm x 23.5 mm. Smaller opal is 1.67 carats. 9 mm x 10 mm. SOLD! . |
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Australian Lightning Ridge Crystal Multicolor. Green, orange, red, blue flashfire 7.5 mm round. 1.03 carats. N7 body tone.
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Australian Black Opal with Blue flake firefall. N4 to N5body tone is unusual for Coober Pedy opal. 1.84 carats. 9 mm x 11 mm.
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Lightning Ridge Opal Small square bursting with color. Red, orange, green, blue - every color blazing from an N2 black body tone opal. 5 mm x 5 mm. 0.56 carats.
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Lightning Ridge Flagstone Spiderweb Pattern Green, blue and orange are very strong in this flagstone pattern opal. This is a rare pattern. Fire is directional, as the intense green hops from flag to flag when the stone moves. Perfect for a ringstone, very flashy and bright. 1.53 carats. 9.2 mm x 10.5 mm
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Australian Lightning Ridge Black Opal Bright blue fire shines from dark black body. N2 body tone. 1.75 carats. 10.5 mm x 12.5 mm. White streaks are light glare. |
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Australian Lightning Ridge Opal Red multicolor flashfire in a tight brush stroke pattern. Slash of black separates a stream of brilliant green from the mixed multicolor. Nice little pear shape, 7 mm x 10.5 mm. 1.0 carat. Red color shows well from pendant position. |
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Lightning Ridge White Opal with black trim Multicolor red opalfire in a white base N8 freeform oval gemstone. 7 mm x 10 mm. 1.67 carats.
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Carved opal green crystal leaf Crystal body with blue glow and bright green fire 0.91 carat. 8 mm x 13 mm Play of color shows well in pendant position.
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More to come regularly...contact mikelley@localnet.com for questions or to purchase any of these stones. Lots more opals are ready to list, please check back New opals every day! Visit my new OpalFireInfo blog on Ganoksin Project, the Jeweler's Resource. |
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