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Rough Opal
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14.35x16.44x9.39mm
14.35 ct Lightning Ridge Light Nobby Opal rub with metallic pastel colours and Green showing at different angles. N8 Body Tone and B2 Brightness indicators.
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37.01x21.19x16.36mm
51.4 ct Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Opal in Dog Rock, showing thick Green colour, elements of Blue and possible Gold. N5 Body Tone and B3 Brightness indicators.
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29.54g Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough & Rubbed Opal parcel showing Gold, Orange, Green, Purple and Blue colour across mixed sizes and shapes.
29.91g Lightning Ridge Crystal Jelly type Nobby Rough with faint colour showing in a few pieces. Affordable gamble material for practising shaping and doming.
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29.81g Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Gamble Parcel with mixed Dark and lighter material and some colour showing. Ideal for cutters exploring Nobby Rough.
An affordable Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Gamble Parcel for learning to read, shape and dome Nobby Opal. Includes a darker Nobby showing a Purple colour bar.
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374.7ct parcel of 14 Lightning Ridge Crystal Nobbies from the Coocoran Opal Fields, showing Blue, Purple, Yellow and Green with darker Body Tone indications visible through parts of the colour bar.
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29g Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Parcel with predominantly medium sized pieces showing Green, Blue, Purple and touches of Yellow and Gold, including several rough rubs and visible colour bars.
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28.63g Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Parcel with mixed sizes and grades, showing bright Green with Yellow, Gold and Blue, plus several partially rubbed pieces.
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Rough Opal | Lightning Ridge | Opal Hub Australia
Discover rough opal, offered exactly as it comes from the ground, unaltered by cutting or rubbing. At Opal Hub Australia, we source rough opal directly from the Lightning Ridge fields, including Corcoran, Grawin and the town opal fields, spanning every grade, black, dark and crystal, from single nuggets through to parcels, giving cutters, collectors and serious buyers the earliest possible stage of ownership.
Colour in rough opal is produced the same way as in any finished stone, through diffraction across microscopic silica spheres, larger spheres diffracting red, the rarest colour and hardest to form without structural flaw, smaller spheres diffracting blue and violet at the opposite structural extreme. At this stage, none of it has been revealed yet, no rubbing, no cutting, only the natural nugget or seam exactly as it was recovered from the field. This is where a cutter's expertise translates directly into value, and where genuine potential sits entirely unclaimed.
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Black Opal Rough
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Rough Opal Parcels
Every piece is offered exactly as it comes from the field, across every grade we work.
Where Our Rough Opal Comes From
Sourced directly from the Lightning Ridge fields, including Corcoran, Grawin and the town opal fields, with full, verifiable provenance on every piece.
Why Serious Buyers Pursue Rough Opal
Full creative control for cutters over the final shape and form
Colour driven by genuine structural rarity, red and blue at opposite extremes of sphere size
Every grade represented, from single nuggets to parcels
Naturally mined, direct from Lightning Ridge, completely unaltered
Genuine geological rarity, not manufactured scarcity
Acquire With Confidence
At Opal Hub Australia, every piece of rough opal we offer is sourced directly from the Lightning Ridge fields, carrying the same standard of authenticity and provenance across our entire collection. Browse our rough opal collection and buy direct from the source, at every grade, every scale.
