10" Polished, Brecciated Pink Opal Section - Australia

This is a 10" wide, polished section of richly colored pink opal (opalised radiolarite). One side has been cut flat and polished to a mirror like finish.

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
Opalised Radiolarite
LOCATION
Carnarvon, Gascoyne Region, Western Australia
SIZE
10 x 4.9", up to 4" thick
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#240125