Opal

There have been some very attractive and impressive Fire Opals that have come out of Ethiopia. Originally, the only locality we had was Wello / Welo / Wollo, but now we know they're specifically coming from Tsehay Mewcha. These gems rival the famous high quality Mexican stones for color, gemminess and the ever popular "Contra Luz" effect.

This "Trillion Brilliant" cut gem has a beautiful colorless interior in transmitted light, but in reflected light it shows the highly desirable and seldom seen COLOR FLASH or "Contra Luz" effect with a beautiful rainbow-like array of color! The color flash is best seen in sunlight or with a strong flashlight against a black background. When strongly lit, this stone shows flashes of blue, green, yellow, gold, orange, red and even purple! These flashes of color are only seen in about 1% of the Fire Opals that I have seen from Ethiopia. It's a very attractive stone, and would make a great piece of jewelry, or would stand on its own as a beautiful addition to your gem collection.

Another noteworthy aspect of this stone is that it is FACETED, and is not a simple polished cabochon, which is significant for this material as very little of the rough has been cut into actual gemstones.

Item #OPALETH100