Price: Aud. $260.00

This lovely Lightning Ridge Opal Pendant has a light grey base which plays a lovely red, rose-gold color which is interspersed with beautiful shimmers and sparkles of a complimentary light sky blue-green.

The darker patches showing at the top and bottom of this Gem are splashes of  natural darker base tone.

Big and bright - this opal pendant is created from opal mined over thirty years ago. Part of a Lightning Ridge rough opal collection mined and owned by an older opal miner.

I was fortunate to purchase a few specimens of opal rough from his collection quite a few years ago now.

This piece was discovered within the heart of a much larger item of rough opal.  At first  the opal did not show much color at all - just  light grey potch opal with a bit of goldy-red twinkling on the edges.

However, after a couple of exploratory slices with the opal saw blade, some lovely color started to come out and show itself !

The top half of this pendant is solid Lightning Ridge light grey based Gem Opal, with the bottom half of the Pendant being constructed with jet black leadlight glass with a MOHS hardness of 6.5 to 6.