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Rough Opal
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28.4g Lightning Ridge Nobby Rough Opal parcel showing Orange, Green and Blue colour, with Black Opal Body Tone indicators in some pieces.
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9.69×8.51×4.25 | 12.06×8.99×3.34 | 9.74×7.7×3.49 | 10.28×9.98×2.48 mm
5.75ct four-piece Lightning Ridge Crystal Opal parcel showing N9 Body Tone indicators, B3 Brightness indicators and visible Multicolour through the natural skin. Bright, transparent material with strong potential for lively smaller finished stones.
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23.88x12.3x6.35 | 19.05x12.13x5.87mm
17.3ct Lightning Ridge Dark Opal Nobby Split Pair from a Quality Field, with N5 Dark Body Tone indicators, B3 Brightness indicators and bright Green, Blue and Yellow to Gold colour. Strong potential for a naturally related matching pair if cut, or a fantastic collector specimen.
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49.34x37.32x30.92mm
Crystal Mirage. A 272.80ct Lightning Ridge Smoky Crystal Nobby Rough featuring holographic colour movement transitioning from deep Purple through Blue and Green tones within the natural colour bar. 49.34 × 37.32 × 30.92 mm.
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61.82×33.16×15.73mm
Giant Ocean Blues Black Scene. A 156.55ct Lightning Ridge Opal Rough displaying crisp Blue colour, dark indicators and significant potential across a substantial piece of material. 61.82 × 33.16 × 15.73 mm.
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44.27x23.33x16.67mm
Fiery Red Multicolour Seam. A 59.39ct Lightning Ridge Opal Rough featuring two to three colour bars with Red, Orange, Golden Orange, Gold, Green and Violet tones, with dark and Black indicators throughout.
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27.36x21.59x16.51mm
Celestial Depth. A 42.60ct Lightning Ridge Dark Crystal Opal Rough with dark body tone indicators, rolling flash, 3D Flagstone Chaff pattern and layered Blue, Green and Purple colour play. 27.36 × 21.59 × 16.51 mm.
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32.61x19.58x13.46mm
Red Horizon. A 30.84ct Lightning Ridge Opal Nobby Rough featuring a thick Red colour bar, dark body tone indicators and strong potential for an exceptional finished opal.
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21.77x16.72x8.16mm
A 10.65ct Lightning Ridge black crystal Opal Nobby, N3, B3, blue and cyan fire, witch's hat exposed through the break. Slice it up for smaller pendants or ring stones.
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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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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
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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.
