5.5" Polished Brecciated Pink Opal - Western Australia

This is a 5.5" wide, polished slab of brecciated pink opal mined in the Gascoyne Region of Western Australia. One side is polished to a mirror like finish, making for a beautiful decorative display. It comes with an acrylic display stand.

Breciatted pink opal is really a different form of mookaite, a type of opalized radiolarite. It is mined from a single prospect 1 kilometer south of the Mooka Creek deposits near Carnarvon, Western Australia. It is found as a dominant horizontal bed within zones of coloured porcellanites located beneath a surface brecciated zone of iron, silica and pink opal fragments. The pink opal often shows Liesegang banding, and microcrystalline quartz-filled vugs.

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SPECIES
Brecciated Pink Opal
LOCATION
Carnarvon, Gascoyne Region, Western Australia
SIZE
5.5" wide, 3.2" tall
CATEGORY
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ITEM
#65585