#wegel tena

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Welo Opal mined from Wegel Tena mine, Ethiopia. Price: US $626.11 SOLD by Golden Hour Minerals on Etsy. (Hi-Res 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

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Stunning dark base Welo opal oval cabochon with super bright fishscale pattern from Delanta/Wegel Tena Ethiopia.

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Ethiopian drones conduct “punitive” strikes on Amhara

Civilians in the Amhara region are being targeted by Ethiopian drone attacks as the Ethiopian army, the only armed drone operator in the Horn of Africa country, wages a full-scale war against ethnic Amhara rebels, Al Jazeera reports.

Several witnesses reported that the drone fired at the ambulance as it approached the Delanta Primary Hospital in Wegel Tena and destroyed it. Hospital staff, including a doctor and an ambulance driver, as well as employees of a nearby construction site died instantly, said Gebeyehu who requested use of his first name only for safety reasons.

“In Wegel Tena, there are still surveillance drones hovering over the sky. Everyone is afraid, so we avoid walking in large groups.”

The rebel militias, known as Fano, were previously allied with the Ethiopian government. However, the two sides split after the former refused an order to dissolve in April. Instead, they seized many of the region’s major cities in August.

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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.)

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia

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Welo Opals | GemPundit.com

Welo Opals | GemPundit.com

There is a lot of buzz all over the internet regarding Welo Opals. What are these gems and what makes them so special? Ethiopian Welo Opals also referred to as “wollo Opals”, were first mined in 2008 near the town of Wegel Tena in the Wollo Province of northern Ethiopia. It never ceased to gain a reputation for quality Ethiopian gemstones and hydrophane Opal ever since. In present times, much of…

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What Is Ethiopian Opal? Where Can You Find Ethiopian Opal?

Welo Opal "Ethiopian Opal"

Some of the opals mined in Ethiopia are hydrophane opals, particularly from the Welo rocks.

Hydrophane Opal is a new word made to indicate a specific Opal kind. Opals have been dug for millennia in Europe and furthermore over 165 years in Australia. In any case, the finding of opals from Ethiopia and Hydrophane has really been around for pretty much 20 years. Business amounts of this thing have upgraded throughout recent years.

Ethiopian welo opal is one of the present most unique and furthermore astounding opal sorts on the commercial center. Since this sort of opal is fresh out of the box new, there is no industry-acknowledged approach to rating this sort of opal like the dark opal. Dark opal stays in dimness, shading light as well as example reviewing.

Additionally, Ethiopian opal is similarly reviewed on shape and light, yet the stone's body conceal doesn't play an enormous part in sorting out the greatest possible level of superior grade.

Ethiopian Opals have various exceptional models and the portrayals should be exact on Opal Auctions. A normally planned potch line with web considerations perceived as honeycomb idea is among perhaps the most widely recognized topics in Ethiopian opal. In some other kind of opals, this model is extremely extraordinary. These sorts of the honeycomb are similarly considered to have lighter or particular shades every so often than the neighboring opal, which is furthermore a phenomenal occasion in nature.

Shading And Also Illumination In Ethiopian Welo Opal

This associates with the fire opal ring. These Ethiopian opals' unmistakable inside fire has characteristics that make the fire truly feel 3D. In many opals, this 3-layered conceal angle is uncommon. It appears at have caught fires inside the opal.

Where Can You Find Welo Opal?

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The absolute originally sent off Ethiopian fortune research with the finding of valuable opal in the locale of Menz Gishe, North Shewa District, was delivered in 1994. The opal, found basically looking like imperfections, was of volcanic beginning and was uncovered principally in climate beaten rhyolite layers.

This opal Shewa District was essentially hued dim brown as well as tended to break. These elements delivered the diamond calling disagreeable. In 2008, a fresh out of the plastic new opal store was found around 180 km north of the region of Shewa, close to the town of Wegel Tena, in the Wollo locale of Ethiopia. Opal from the past Ethiopian opal searchings for, the Wollo Province was unmistakable in that it significantly more unequivocally seemed like Australia and Brazil's sedimentary opals with a light foundation as well as oftentimes unique play-of-shading. Opal Wollo Province, extra routinely alluded to as opal "Welo" or "Wello," has come to be the main Ethiopian opal in adornments calling.

Are Ethiopian opals helpful?

Opals with a strange or unmistakable example are extra beyond value. The Harlequin design in opals is one of the most strange and preferred design, yet it is truly uncommon.

Ethiopian opal is only one of the present market's most differed and furthermore sensational opal sorts. Ethiopian opal is appraised on shape as well as glow, but the stone's body tone doesn't have an enormous influence in sorting out the incomparable top quality.

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Dendrite growths 3d color play inside of the opal and on the surface 

FROM Tsehay Mewcha, Wegeltena (Wegel Tena), Delanta, Welo (Wello; Wollo), Afar Province, Ethiopia.

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Marvelous 23 carats Ethiopian Welo opal with superb play of color.

Ethiopian Opal has been mined since 2008. The entire region around Wegel Tena consists of a volcano-sedimentary sequence with alternating layers of basalt and rhyolitic ignimbrite. Over the entire region, only one thin seam is mineralized with opal. The opal is extracted by artisanal miners using picks, hammers, and shovels.

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia. Small but full of fire. Imagine a 1 carat diamond ring....this is 4 and opal is lite so it’s not tiny.

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia www.etsy.com/shop/GoldenHourMinerals

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia. 9/16 inch across. Excellent flash www.etsy.com/shop/GoldenHourMinerals http://stores.ebay.com/Golden-Minerals/_i.html www.Goldenhourminerals.com

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia

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4 Carat Wollo Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia. https://www.etsy.com/listing/400250833/4-carat-wollo-opal-from-wegel-tena-wollo?ga_search_query=opal&ref=shop_items_search_1