#ethiopian chocolate opal

[crystalcreekopals]

Superb honeycomb chocolate opal specimen from Mezezo, Ethiopia.

[fowardfashionfindz]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Welo Opal 14.86Ct Natural Ethiopian Play of Color Welo Opal.

[reddpenn]

I came here for the My Roomate is an apparition and now Im in love with your rock stuff!! I collect a few rocks, so im happy to see yours!!🖤 please show more under microscope! (sorry if my English is a bit bad)

Your English sounds just fine to me!  Wanna see my collection of opals under a microscope???

This is Queensland precious opal, known for its blue undertones and multicolored flash.  It is perhaps the most traditional of my opals.  Here’s what it looks like under a microscope!

Those soft colors are really lovely.  It looks kind of like an abstract painting or something, doesn’t it?

This one is also from Australia, and it’s my personal favorite opal in my collection!  This is Australian boulder opal!

A microscope is the best way to view this one!  Each one of those tiny, tiny cracks is filled with flashy, brightly colored opal!

This is Mexican cherry opal.  While this particular piece is a pastel pink, cherry opal can come in really vibrant red, too!

Cherry opal is a “potch” or common opal, meaning it doesn’t have any flash, even under a microscope.  Just a nice, consistent pink color!

Also from Mexico, this is a Mexican fire opal, named for its bright red color!  This one does have a little bit of flash, which becomes super clear under a microscope!

The flash in this one is mostly red and green.  I think those greens look really cool against the red matrix!

Actually, I’ve got a whole jar of Mexican fire opals!  I keep these stored in water because they become pretty fragile if they’re allowed to dry out.  Most of these are common opal, but with a microscope I can find some interesting flashes hidden in there!

There’s a cool one!  They’re hard to photograph through the glass.

Here’s my collection of Ethiopian precious opals!  Most of these are pretty translucent, but the opaque white one in the top right is what’s known as “milk opal,” meaning it’s... well, opaque and white!  The flashes in Ethiopian opal tend to be more isolated, and also very bright!  Like little fireworks!

That one in the bottom middle is my favorite.  His name is Spot.

This is another Ethiopian opal, and it has the brightest flash out of all of my opals!  This is Ethiopian chocolate opal, so called because of its chocolatey brown color.

Under a microscope, it has some really interesting patterns!

And also shows off some blue and greens that weren’t visible to the naked eye!

Last of all is a very cool and unique looking type of opal that you’ve probably never heard of before.  This is Honduran matrix opal!  This stone normally looks boring and grey, and those glittery flashes of color only appear when the rock is wet!

Under a microscope, you can see the tiny, tiny flecks of microscopic opal speckled all through this rock!  I think it’s interesting how they grow in bands of different colors.

Anyway, that’s my whole collection of opals, in macro and micro!  I hope you enjoyed looking at them!

[distilled-prose]

LinkedIn - Rui Galopim de Carvalho 5/2/22

Precious opals, those with a play-of-colour, are usually associated with Australia and Brazil for the contribution that their deposits have been offering since the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1994 a new production region was discovered in Ethiopia, in Mezezo, in the Shewa region, with a typically nodular habit and brown hue, becoming known in the trade as chocolate opals. However, it was not until 2008 that the major occurrences were identified near Wegel Tena in the Wollo (or Welo) province, consisting mainly as volcanic-related material. Much of this new material is actually more accurately described as hydrophane, a type of absorbent opal that, as the name suggests, has the ability to absorb water. This property has caused durability issues in some of the more porous and included material due to the impact of the absorbed water in the material’s volume. Another deposit was located in 2013 at Stayish, also in the Wollo province and today Ethiopia has joined Australia, Brazil and Mexico as a major opal producer. Many Ethiopian opals, apparently regardless of their specific mining location, may display a distinct aesthetic pattern, called “digits”, that is thought to result from the disposition of the material in parallel columns. This pattern is visible in the opal cabochon set on the Panther bracelet by Cartier. © Cartier (I have several hundred carats of Welo Opal I intend to cut once I'm back from the agate/mining road trip. They are gorgeous stones.)

[squidartism]

Full disclaimer here I used my boyfriend's base on opal No. 7 I owe him my life

Rules:

First come first serve!

Yes I do holds!

PayPal only!

I'm very happy to do customs if the adopt you're looking at already sold!

Add ons:

Components- $1/100 points

Weapon- $1/100 points

Cotton candy form- $3/300 points

Homeworld outfit/CG outfit- $4/400 points

Ex owner- $5/500 points

Homeworld outfit/CG outfit with comps- $6/600 points

Row 1:

Chocolate Opal- $2/200 points

Dragon's Breath Opal- SOLD

Ethiopian Welo Opal- $2/200 points

Fire Opal' $2/200 points

Row 2:

Honduran Opal- $4/400 points

Hyalite Opal- $2/200 points

Koroit Opal- $2/200 points

Light Grey Opal- SOLD

[phenomenalgems]

✨Ethiopian Opal specimens, each with a unique personality, new in the shop! Message me to see videos of each piece. 🔥

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Clockwise from top left:

1-“Jaws” shark mouth opal, rainbow flash—$42

2-Rainbow wing-shaped opal, green and pink flash—

$22

3-Honeycomb pattern, red and green flash—$22

4-Chocolate & caramel nodule, rainbow flash—$64

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All prices include US Shipping. Comment number to claim, or see them at PhenomenalGems.Etsy.com! ✨#ethiopianopals #opals #rainbow #opallovers #opalporn #gemstones #crystals #rocksandminerals #wirewrap #jewelrysupply #naturalbeauty #crystalphotography #opals #opalstone #aunaturel #goodvibes #rainbow #preciousopal #ethiopianbeauty #crystalsforsale #phenomenalgems #etsy #etsyshop #etsycrystals

[chordia007]

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The different hues also range from light brown color to deep chocolate brown color. Sometimes it also displays a snakeskin pattern. Natural Opal Stone also displays a spectrum of colors.We are famous in Manufacturing and Supplying a wide range of Precious and Semi Precious Gemstones and Ethiopian opal is a semi-precious gemstone which is found very recently in northern Ethiopia.

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[gemsonaresources]

Could you list the types of Opals, Rubies and Amethysts?

Opals:-Arizona Landscape Opal-Black Opal-Blue Opal-Boulder Opal-Brazilian Opal-Cat’s Eye Opal-Cherry Opal-Chocolate Opal -Dragon’s Breath (Fire) Opal-Ethiopian Welo Opal-Fire Opal-Honduran Opal-Hyalite Opal-Koroit Opal-Light Grey Opal-Matrix Opal-Opal-White Opal

Rubies:-Cherry Ruby-Hot Pink Ruby-Fuchsia Ruby-Pigeon’s Blood Ruby-Royal Ruby-Ruby-Star Ruby

Amethysts:-Amethyst-Black Amethyst-Brandberg Amethyst-Chevron Amethyst-Rose De France Amethyst-Twilight Mountain Amethyst

[sugarpusslondon]

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[fowardfashionfindz]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Rare Natural Ethiopian 5.32 Ct Chocolate Shewa Mezezo Opal Cabochon.

[reddpenn]

I’m back from my rock show!  Who wants to see all my new Cool Rocks?

This little guy is red corundum, also known as a ruby!  It naturally grows in that hexagonal shape.  Here’s a fun rock fact:  if this corundum was any other color, it would be called a sapphire!

I’ve gotta get some sunlight shining on this one.  It’s the only way to properly appreciate rutilated quartz!  This super clear quartz has a whole forest of golden needles of rutile growing inside!  The only bad thing about rutilated quartz is that photos don’t do justice to how sparkly and golden and amazing it really is.

This is half of what’s called a pyrite sun!  Pyrite’s known for its cube-shaped crystals, but did you know it can form in flat round disks like this too?  They’re also called sun dollars, and pretty much the only place in the world where they occur is my home state of Illinois!

I won this rock at the show’s silent auction, and somebody else went home with the other half of the disk.  It’s cool to think that somewhere out there, someone has the other half of my rock.

Here’s some more pyrite!  These pyrite crystals didn’t form in the usual cube shape either.  They’re slightly rarer dodecahedral crystals!  Those pointy white crystals growing around them are a mixture of calcite and dolomite.  The other cool thing about this specimen is the beautiful bronzy reddish color of the pyrite, which was probably caused by oxidation, the pyrite chemically reacting with oxygen.

Opal!  Opal opal opal!!  It’s about the same size and color as a piece of chocolate, which is fitting because this is Ethiopian chocolate opal!

The play of color is amazing against that dark background.  Here are some more pictures of all the different colors in this opal.  I’m particularly blown away by that blue!

This is pegmatite, an ingneous rock.  Igneous rocks are the rocks that form when molten lava cools and hardens, and pegmatites are igneous rocks which form with abnormally big crystals.  Usually crystal growth happens really slowly, but the crystals in pegmatite are able to get really big because they form really fast!  I didn’t wrap this rock in tinfoil.  The huge shiny patch on this pegmatite is probably either molybdenite or graphite - the stuff in pencil lead!

How about a manmade rock?  This is silicon carbide, also known as carborundum!  It’s created by heating carbon and silica and is used for all kinds of things - like an abrasive for saws and cutting tools.  I own a dremel with some silicon carbide bits!  Of course it also makes for an amazing iridescent gemstone.

This weird looking rock is chalcedony!  And it’s cool because it’s very slightly sort of technically radioactive!!!  My little rock viewing light isn’t powerful enough for this kind of fluorescence, but if I had the right kind of UV light, I could show off how this guy fluoresces neon green!  Green fluorescence in chalcedony is caused by uranyl ions… as in uranium!

Don’t worry, this rock isn’t radioactive enough to hurt me.  Lots of quartz, jasper, and chalcedony contain tiny amounts of uranyl ions, but uranium’s actually pretty safe stuff!  Even solid chunks of uranium ore are safe enough to hold in your bare hands.  I got to handle some at the rock show!

This rock is full of tiny, hollow pockets lined with green crystals of epidote.  Epidote has some Cool Optical Properties, but these crystals are much too small to show them off.  Supposedly, large crystals of epidote change color depending on the angle you view them!  But this rock has sparkly green spots, and that’s enough to file it under Rocks That Make Me Happy!

Speaking of green rocks, this is pyromorphite!  I’d never even heard of this rock before going to the rock show, but it’s my favorite color, so this is my new favorite rock!  Here’s all the Cool Science I’ve been learning about it.

This specimen came from Daoping Mine in China, which produces some really large, beautiful crystals of this stuff!  Pyromorphite is a type of apatite, so it’s like the sister of the blue and yellow apatite specimens I already own.  It’s a lead ore, so if I ate it, I’d be super dead!  Pyromorphite can actually form in the soil of industrial areas which are polluted with large amounts of lead.  Some scientific studies have been done about maybe using that transformation of lead into pyromorphite as a way of cleaning up polluted soil by making the lead safer and less water soluble.  But it turns out that’s not a good solution, because there’s a species of fungus that likes to turn pyromorphite back into lead!  That fungus is black mold, the same stuff that makes you super sick if it starts growing in your house.  Geeze black mold, why are you so terrible in literally every context?

Big sparkly girl!  Big sparkly girl!!  This is probably the second best rock I came home with.  It’s a big plate of selenite with a bunch of interesting inclusions.  (And I cannot resist interesting inclusions.)  It didn’t grow out of that piece of quartz; that’s actually its display stand!  This Cool Rock is a conglomerate of several different rocks held together by resin - it’s an art piece!  The quartz has been dyed purple to made the colorless selenite really stand out against it.  If you don’t like manmade rocks, cool displays like this are probably not for you, but I think it’s a neat way of showing off a rock!  Sort of like a little rock statue for my apartment.

But now for the best rock…

Big fossil boy!  Massive fossil boy!!  Absolutely enormous fossil boy!!!

Here is my unreasonably large pianist’s hand for scale.  These fossils are huge!  Those long cones are the skeletons of orthoconic nautiloids, but you might have also heard of them as orthoceras.  They were big cone-shaped cephalopods!  They’re found all over the world and actually belong to a whole bunch of different species, though scientists didn’t realize that for a long time and just called them all orthoceras.  I’m not sure if the spiral fossils are nautiloids or ammonoids.  You’re supposed to be able to tell from the shape of the shell.  Nautiloids, maybe?

What a cool find!  Nothing is better than coming home from a rock show with a bunch of new rocks!  There’s only one problem now.

I’m gonna need another bookshelf.

[opaldome]

Ethiopian Chocolate Opal

[ethiopianopalbeads-blog]

However, hey! Do you know that your Opal is used for the treatment of Dyes, Smoke, & Acid because of its porous nature which made price a bit down in the market. The Gemstone Industry had a vast discovery of this adorable Gemstone gave a high impact, and its play of color essence makes it more attractive. The base color is always brown, and the Opal which displays the color spectrum is called "Chocolate Opal Fire".

We say that color enhancement makes the material more prone to buying just like that, the Opal is smoked to enhance the color and named as "Ethiopian Black opal".

However, what about its purity? Now, this sounds to be a measure to consider but in the history of Gem. This is the purest and porous Gem which does not craze while drying out, unlike other stones. It has violet, red, black, white, brown, grey and green colors in which violet color Opal comes from dye treatment, black color occurs naturally, but many are enhanced to black color by smoke treatment as we have said earlier. Natural Ethiopian and customized Opal are not easily identified as they exhibit similar quality and nature.

[phenomenalgems]

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😍🔥 Love the fire on this beautiful Ethiopian Opal chocolate nodule! The striking rich red background of the opal really showcases electric flashes of red, green, and gold. I also love that the rhyolite which surrounds the opal is also kissed with pale blue opalescence, in a ring around the precious opal section. A stunning natural specimen for opal lovers, that is suitable for collection, display, and jewelry supply! 😍 10.7 g (0.4 oz, 51 cts)—$70 shipped US, and just $59.50 shipped with code LUCKYDAY15! Dm to claim or visit it in the Opals section on PhenomenalGems.Etsy.com. 🔥 #Ethiopianopal #fire #opallovers #chocolate #nodule #geode #rainbow #minerals #crystals #gems #healingcrystals #rocksandminerals #raregems #naturelovers #boho #hippie #wirewrap #jewelrysupply #phenomenalgems #etsy #etsyshop #etsycrystals https://www.instagram.com/p/BvPilAHF_2g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ffyrztv1lsr7