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What Gives Minerals Color?

What gives minerals color? It's an important question because mineral color is a primary way to identify minerals and assess their value. Mineral color...
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What are the Birthstones by Month?

What are the birthstones by month? What is your birthstone? For as long as humans have been fascinated with precious gems, they have assigned...
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Pink Opal: What to Cut

Pink opal, for many years, was found only in Peru. Then in 2011, Glenn Archer of Australian Outback Mining discovered a new find in...
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Exploring the Royal Peacock Opal Mine

Royal Peacock Opal Mine got its start over a century ago. Back then, the cowboys and sheepherders in the Virgin Valley of northwest Nevada...
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What to Cut: Aurora Opal

Aurora Opal is a homogeneously crystalized, synthetic, impregnated opal. Roy Goldberg, at Aurora Opals, describes this material as irregular and fine crystalline, with nondirectional,...
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Iridescent Rocks: The Rainbow of the Mineral World

Iridescent rocks are familiar members of the mineral world that we prize such as opal and moonstone. With vivid colors and infinite variations, the...
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A Rookie Prospector’s Tale

By Gary A. Monroe I developed an interest in rockhounding a few years ago. I was watching a television show about hunting opals in Australia....
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Connecting With A&S Opals, LLC

A&S Opals, LLC, is a sponsor of   By Antoinette Rahn Fulfilling a Childhood Dream and Aiding Others Adam Sawicki, the owner of A&S Opals, LLC, first discovered...
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Outlaw Rocks, LLC: Family-Style Oregon Mining

Outlaw Rocks, LLC, is a sponsor of   By Bruce McKay The first fire opal I met from the Opal Queen Mine was brownish, had no play-of-color...

Ammolite — Beautiful and Magical

By Jim Brace-Thompson Although most gemstones come from inorganic minerals, a class of “organic gems” consists of materials created by organisms (plants and animals) and...

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