Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) with Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite (var: Staffelite) Camp Bird This is one of the

This is one of the last pieces of this material that I have left so don't pass it by

My favorite aspect of the piece is that the spheres are isolated(

1 cm sitting nicely on the underlying host rock matrix

sharpness and translucency/gemminess sitting on wonderfully contrasting

Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) with Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite (var: Staffelite) Camp Bird This is one of theWhen it comes to Hyalite Opal the proper name is Opal (var Opal AN) the specimens from Valec are the most famous in my mind. This material is essentially colorless and resembles lustrous glass beads. The historic old mines are now closed as they lay in a military reservation, and these specimens will never be found again. This beautiful piece features a group of intergrown glistening, colorless, spherical "bead" like nodules of Opal AN which have a