Ethiopian Opals
Ethiopian Opals are valued for their bright flashes of colour. Ethiopian Opals are nobby-formed rather than seam-formed and have characteristically brown or dark-nodule potch. Ethiopian opals with their vivid sunburnt green and red flashes and patterns are prized by collectors.
Gondar, a new field only worked in the last few years, is more of a crystal formation than Ethopian opals. These, too, are valued for their bright colours.
Ethiopian Opals have only begun to be mined recently. However, anthropologists report that around 4,000 years BC, early man used opals to make tools, which means that Africa mined opals even before Australia.
Source your single-gem or parcel Ethiopian Opals direct from opal miners and wholesaler/dealers.
See the Ethiopian Opal Grading Chart.
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Last Update: 2 Jan 2011