Faceted Opals are cut by professionals using the same equipment as diamond cutters. Most popular are crystal opals, as cutting helps refect the colours in this type of opal. It is hard to find opals that are suitable to be faceted, but a few are found in the crystal opal fields of Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy and, recently, Ethiopia or Mexico.
Source your single-faceted or parcel-faceted opals direct from opal miners and opal wholesaler/dealers.
