Australian Boulder Wood Fossil Opal Pair. 31.07 ct

Australian Boulder Wood Fossil Opal Pair. Cabochon Cut 31.07 ct total.

Wood fossils opals have a long history. Maybe 100 million years, in their day they were a tree, roots or who knows, part of vegetation of the great Australia. Whit the passage of time this wood became fossilized and there was a replacement of part of it by precious opal.

Today they are an amazing pair of untreated rock opals displaying a beautiful pattern with their neon blue and green in between the matrix. When I buy gems I always imagine how they would look once mounted, and I imagine these two beauties with a neon blue top stone, perhaps an apatite and the dangling opal making its play of color more visible.

These amazing opals are perfect for your bespoke jewelry.
Gemstones 100% Ethical and Natural.

The Opal is associated with good luck, it is the birthstone for October and the gem fo 14th wedding anniversaries.

The name for the opal comes from the Sanskrit word "Upala", meaning precious stone or stone par excellence.

The Greek word "opallios" means "to see a change of colors".

The opal is an amorphous substance that belongs to the silica group. It is formed by a series of spherical microscopic structures of various sizes, which diffract light to show a beautiful play of colors.