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Finished common opals

Purchase from the miner. Cheap but mostly milky white and transparent dark green. I found small hyalite welded together with green opal

Got these today... Very dark transparent green, white and honey opals from Manggal hill, Tirtomoyo, Wonogiri, Indonesia.
It is worth to cut into cabochon?

Yeah.. That's Banten opal!! Its means the insect is 3-4 million years old because they deposited in Genteng formation layer.

Beautiful

Gemstones from Malaysia

Actually its not Banten but came from altitude 660m at Manggal hill, Wonogiri at the East Java while the Banten precious opal inside watery pit mine at the West Java. They are similar to Virgin valley precious and the Juniper ridge opal. (hehehe i never seen american opal on my hand except the owyhe...

Thanks, the raw...
It help me a lot for the classification.

Yess... At last i can share the video.
Not yet test.

Orange vs Green fire opal from Indonesia. Both are translucent and from similar location Manggal hill, Wonogiri, Indonesia. These gemmy pieces are actually very rare compare to the other famous fire opal.