Narrator: High-quality black opal can cost over $10,000 per carat, making it one of the world's most expensive gemstones. But mining black opal isn't easy. After investing tens of thousands of ...
Straight black lines or bands often cross the patches, and these are due to polysynthetic or mechanical twin planes of the photonic crystal, merging at the surface of the gem (Kinder, 1969; Gauthier, ...
This large Australian light opal cabochon weighs 117.85 carats. Small play-of-color flashes of orange and green predominate in a pinfire pattern, with spots of a more muted blue over a grayish ...