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72.44x11.06mm
Poseidon's Fire. 168ct Lightning Ridge Opal Specimen.
Ocean and flame in a single irreplaceable form. Deep teal body with eruptions of orange, red and gold threaded by natural lightning across the face. Formed over millions of years. There is no other.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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25.81x24.74x20.31mm
A 53.5ct dark to black seam opal, rough, showing strong bar and colour indicators with genuine cutting potential. Sourced directly from the field.
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64.68x37.51x21.87mm
"Reverie" 330ct Lightning Ridge Opal Specimen.
A blue grey body mapped with ancient river systems, pinfire colour rolling across every surface in waves. Magenta, pink, blue purple lilac, red, orange and green. Formed once. Over millions of years. It will not form again.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
24.58x11.52x8.57mm
13.25ct N6 finished crystal opal. Lightning Ridge. Double sided, high dome, three dimensional flagstone pattern with a red glow through the body. Green, blue and purple facing brilliantly from every angle. Crystal opal of this size and clarity is exceptional.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
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45.25x42.65x46.45mm
A 469.75ct crystal nobby specimen. Straight out of the ground. Teal, cyan, blue, green and violet with a red glow radiating through the crystal body. Flagstone pattern across the face, organised into plates and vertical bars with a rolling play of colour that shifts with the light. Surface windows on multiple faces, each one a different world. This has not been cleaned. What you see here is the floor, not the ceiling.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable.
13.87x12.44x4mm
4.50ct finished black opal. Lightning Ridge. Broad face, jigsaw flagstone pattern layering three dimensionally with elegant black potch lines. Red, gold and purple toned blue across the face. A gold flash band moves across the largest pattern element as the light shifts. Genuine presence from every angle.
Authentic. Rare. Unforgettable
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20.15x15.84x6.35mm
An opalised Cretaceous shark tooth from Lightning Ridge. 4.25ct. Family Otodontidae — the direct ancestral lineage of Megalodon. Attributed to Cretalamna. Recovered from what was a freshwater to near shore coastal environment during the Cretaceous period. The only known opalised example of this tooth type from Lightning Ridge. Examined by specialist palaeontologists and the subject of ongoing academic research. Complete and exceptionally preserved. Singular.
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.
