Description
Locality: Juniper Ridge Opal Mine, near Bly, Lake County, Oregon, USA
Carat Weight: 3.52ct
Approximate size: pending measurement
Cut: Faceted, cushion fantasy cut
Location Cut: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
This one-of-a-kind Oregon fire opal was mined at the Juniper Ridge Opal Mine near Bly, Oregon, and cut in Vancouver, British Columbia by Broken Ox Creations as a 3.52 carat cushion fantasy cut: a squarish cushion with softly curved sides, faceted on the pavilion and carved across the crown with round bubbles. Those bubbles work like small lenses, so the rich amber-orange colour catches the eye from every angle.
Oregon fire opal is a transparent to translucent opal of hydrated silica, loved for its warm yellow, orange and red body colour rather than for play-of-colour. It forms when silica-rich water seeps into cavities in volcanic rock and slowly hardens there, picking up its colour mainly from trace iron. At a hardness of 5.5 it is best worn in pendants, earrings and other protected settings.
Chemical Composition: Hydrated silica, SiO₂·nH₂O
Mohs Hardness: 5.5
Treatment: Natural/None
Quantity: 1pc
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