I'm thinking Sunstone for the rectangle and Rubellite for the last round on Arts post.
Clay canyon in Utah was a wondrous place they mined and then mined again. I imagine there has to be more somehow, somewhere, but never been there & in a lot of places; that pocket was the only place, discovered so far. I got a few small nodules out of an estate Larry Old bought from an Agate Dealer of the good Varasite i have not cut yet.
I keep adding to the top of the piles faster than I can organize or cut any of it. Leah's kids or the grand kids can find a use for it all after I'm gone I'm sure or just sell the property landscaped. Its a lot more fun to mine than clean or sell. Here is a picture of the finished pendant from that rough in the dome earlier.
- Black Opal Pendent
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Decided I was polishing challenged a few years ago, decades?, due to my perfectionist bent & barely have any new stuff to show off compared to mining claim numbers. I'm still selling opal prospects for the least cash that a person actually can show you where to mine on, not recite some book from 5 states away.
- Dried Black opal Rough
- Dried Black opal Rough
I will match that 50% off for Military, Law Enforcement & First Responders where I always gave 25% before Domingos price war.
A couple wood opals that are unique to Virgin Valley. They do come in all base colors of the opalized woods and can occasionally be found in the huge log rounds commonly as veins or penetrating from the outside in.
- Opalized Wood cabs
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Because he swears the shown opal is from the claim he jumped: The fact is "nothing resembling Bonanza Mine, Peacock Mine, Rainbow Ridge Mine, Opal Queen Mine, Kokopelli Mine or Swordfish Mining opal with "ghosts" have ever been mined from the Black Beauty Mine" and anybody that has ever dug there can testify. That specific areas opal is like grains of sand or spaghetti with rare larger pieces & resembles tiny Ethiopian shriveled opal more than any Fee dig in Virgin Valley. It too can craze when dried prior to cutting rough selection AND many other mines in the valley have that same sort of opal that I could point out to you. It does not produce dome grade specimens or any opal in wood. I have several claims on that deposit in that area for sale; one that butts up to the Stone Tree claim itself and already has an RV and outhouse there.
- One chip off the 14 oz knot from the Bonanza rind
- Black Opal is not all crazy
The cutters heart break; now you have 2 gemstones. I have to practice my pic skills...This one glows in low light was the intended shot.
Also by definition Yellow, or Orange Clear Opal is labeled Fire opal. Red Opal is Cherry Opal, Green opal is green opal, blue opal is blue opal, purple opal is purple opal and Pink Opal is pink opal whether it is clear or not. We also mine Green and Yellow and Fire nonprecious opal from Virgin Valley.