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28.7 gram Lightning Ridge dark and black opal rough parcel. Bright greens, blues and purples. A bright little rub in the mix alongside stones with promise and honest gambles. Suitable for beginners or the more experienced person who likes a challenge. "They Don't Have To Be Big In The Ridge." Free shipping within Australia.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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29.78x32.43x12.48mm
A 47.65ct rough black opal nobby. Blue, purple and green showing throughout the stone and across the windows. Sand evident around the edges, yield unknown. The opportunity within it is what makes it interesting.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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21x19x7mm
A window into a dark to black Lightning Ridge nobby, blue and green flash cutting through the stone.
Honest rough, sold as seen, for the cutter ready to find out what's underneath.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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18.34x6.58x5.38mm
An opalised Cretaceous plesiosaur tooth from Lightning Ridge. 2.25ct. Morphology consistent with a juvenile specimen. Recovered from what was a freshwater to near shore coastal environment, adding to its rarity. Complete and exceptionally preserved with delicate ribbing along the curved form. A window into an ancient inland sea.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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28.81ct mixed base rough nobby parcel. Varying body tones, purples, blues and greens. The king stone is a green, blue on black nobby that reads black opal. One bright orange piece with pointer promise. "They Don't Have To Be Big In The Ridge." Amongst other pieces, there is further potential waiting to be uncovered. Free shipping within Australia.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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23.34x19.83x6.37mm
13.40ct dark black opal nobby, snipped on three sides. Potential for N2 black potch. N5 dark base. Electric greens, golds and blues showing at B4 to B5 brightness. Flagstone chaff with rolling elements. Torch shows light consistently through the majority of the stone. Minimal waste. For someone with confidence and experience.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
24.65x14.74x6.94mm
A 9.40ct N7 light base crystal opal rough. The colour reads like a Lightning Ridge sunset. Vermilion beneath orange and goldy yellow fire, with lilac and green interlaid through the same body. All firing simultaneously. Sand on the back only. The face is clean. A colour combination that nature does not repeat on demand.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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Five pieces of Lightning Ridge crystal seam opal. 31.85ct total. N5 dark to N6 light body tone. Vivid reds, oranges, greens and blues across the parcel. Material can darken up during cutting. No guarantees, but the opportunity is there.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
38.5x30x16mm
An 80ct dark rough seam opal from Lightning Ridge. A colour bar running through the body showing red, orange, teal and magenta with potential to face at twenty cent piece size. Dramatic ironstone matrix. Striking as a specimen. The secret is inside.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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Discover genuine opal, sourced directly from Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, the only place on earth producing true black opal. At Opal Hub Australia, we source every stone we sell, including Corcoran, Grawin and the town opal fields, giving collectors, jewellers and investors direct access to a gemstone with a single point of origin and no true equivalent anywhere else in the world.
Colour in opal is produced through diffraction across microscopic silica spheres, larger spheres diffracting red, the rarest and most difficult colour to form without structural flaw, smaller spheres diffracting blue and violet at the opposite structural extreme. Against Lightning Ridge's distinctive body tones, black, dark, crystal and white, this diffraction produces colour unmatched by any other gemstone on earth. Pattern adds a further, genuine layer of rarity, a specific, limited set of named patterns, harlequin, flagstone, straw, rolling flash, broad flash, and rarest of all, pictorial, found in this combination nowhere else opal is mined.
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Why Lightning Ridge
Australia produces the vast majority of the world's precious opal, and within Australia, Lightning Ridge alone produces true black opal, a body tone and geological combination found nowhere else on the planet. No two stones are ever identical. Every one formed naturally over millions of years, shaped by conditions specific to this exact location.
Why Choose Opal Hub Australia
Naturally mined, direct from the Lightning Ridge fields
Colour driven by genuine structural rarity, red and blue at opposite extremes of sphere size
A limited, specific set of named patterns found nowhere else in this combination
Genuine geological rarity, not manufactured scarcity
Full provenance, direct from the fields that produce it
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At Opal Hub Australia, we are passionate about showcasing the finest Lightning Ridge opal through carefully selected stones and jewellery, sourced directly from the fields that produce them. Browse our full collection today and discover why serious collectors, jewellers and investors continue to return to Lightning Ridge, and to us, for the rarest gemstone on earth.
