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Mexican Fire
Most countries in the world have opal of some kind. In Australia we have black opal and crystal opal. Mexico has produced some opal that you would call Mexican fire. This type of opal is a volcanic type and come formed in nodules. Most Mexican Fire has a brownish tint to the gemstone with the color-play throughout. Some Mexican opals can be as bright and similar to the Australian Opal…
Mexican Fire Opal
The term Mexican fire opal is the name that derived from the pattern and color play that the opal in Mexico has shown. The opal is a volcanic type of opal and is formed in volcanic rock. The mining of Mexican fire opal is very hard, for the rock bearing the opal is hard and difficult to mine in. The opal can get broken quite often. Mexican fire opal is found in Mexico and is one of the worlds only places that produces opal with color play and pattern in volcanic rock…
Black Fire Opal
The term Black fire opal is used for opal with a dark or black body-tone. The fire in the opal refers to the color-play and when you get both of the 2 combining together you will get black fire opal. Most people understand fire opal as Mexican opal. But we can call the fire in any opal that has colorplay. Because it looks like fire no matter the color or brightness…
Blue Fire Opal
Blue Fire opal is a term loosely used for a color and pattern that is not of a red fire color. The fire refers to the pattern and color play in the opal. When you move the opal around, it will show that blue fire opal looks like flames, only blue. Blue opals have started growing in value because of the small amount coming out of the mines. In the early days the blue opals used to be in abundance but now they are very hard to come by….
Opal Gold
Opal Gold or gold opal is the color that you will find in opals color play and pattern. The gold is the color derived from the certain sized silica spheres, stacked evenly in the opal formation. The larger the silia spheres, the closer to red the color will be and the smaller the silica spheres the closer to blue color the opal will be. Gold opal is somewhere in between…
Fire Opal Ring
This term for an Fire Opal Ring is a term used for a ring with an opal in it with fire. The colorplay in the ring if the fire in the opal. The opal can come from enywhere in the world and can be called fire opal if it has color in it. It is mainly known for Mexicn opals to be called fire opals but can be referred to many other types of opals in rings. When the opal fire shows up bright the ring usually has more value the brighter the opal in it...
Australian Fire Opal
Australian Opal is some of the best opal in hte world with values catching up to $20,000 per carat. Australians are some of the most lucky people having many opa fields here in there own back garden. Even though these mining fields are many kilometers apart. The Australian Fire Opal is a far superior opal gemstone than that of other countries. That is from the contribution of Lightning Ridge's black opal which is the most sort after opal in the world...
Fire Opal Red
Fire is used commonly to refer to the precious color in opal. The colorplay makes for a beautiful gemstone far and above the colorplay of any other colored gemstone. The most valuable color in opal is red and many opal miners are spending a lifetime searching for the opal with red color in it. Only a few lucky few actually find the fire opal red color. Many countries produce opal and in every case the red color is always the most rare...
Fire Opal Blue
Lightning Ridge is the home of the opal especially the Fire Opal Blue. This opal color is becoming more and more rare every year and values are rising. Blue opal is some of the brightest types of opal around. Not many countries produce fire opal blue in the world in the quantitiy as lightning Ridge. IN Meixco the opal with blue color is very rare nad if it is found it is usually combined with the color red. This phenomenom is unexplained except for the sizing of the silica spheres in each precious opal.
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