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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 km south of the Mooka Creek deposits near Carnarvon, 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.
SPECIES
Opalised Radiolarite
LOCATION
Carnarvon, Gascoyne Region, Western Australia
SIZE
10 x 4.9", up to 4" thick
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#240125