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Title: What color pattern is this?
Post by: John Robinson on October 18, 2017, 02:57:42 PM

Actually, it does not seem to have a pattern - just a bunch of small sploches (?)

Title: Re: What color pattern is this?
Post by: hummingbirdstones on October 18, 2017, 03:53:16 PM

Small flash fire

Title: Re: What color pattern is this?
Post by: John Robinson on August 09, 2019, 03:27:22 PM

Well, here is that opal a few years later and I still do not know the pattern... lol

Title: Re: What color pattern is this?
Post by: John Robinson on August 09, 2019, 03:29:47 PM

Rats! Sorry I tapped on the wrong picture - same opal but different layer...

Title: Re: What color pattern is this?
Post by: VegasJames on August 09, 2019, 03:54:05 PM

Opal patterns

https://www.opalauctions.com/learn/technical-opal-information/opal-patterns

Title: Re: What color pattern is this?
Post by: ileney on November 04, 2019, 03:52:41 PM

I'm confused. The first opal is a Cobber Pedy white opal. The second and third are what? Black Andamooka matrix opals? Boulder? Something else?