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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.
25x18.5x6mm
Pulled from the Mulga field deep within Lightning Ridge's Grawin fields, this seam opal carries the full story of its formation in one piece. N8 light opal base with B3 brightness, colour running the length of the stone in waves of red, orange, gold, green and lilac exactly as nature laid it down over millions of years.
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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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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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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.
