Boulder Opal Wood Fossil Rough 499 items

Buy Boulder Opal Wood Fossil Rough

This rough is only found in few mines in the Queensland opal fields.

The wood or timber or vegetation was fossilized along with the opal formation.

When the opal rough is cut the results can be unique as the vegetation fossil can be different color and texture to the opal formation.

Most wood fossil is formed on sandy potch instead hard chocolate ironstone found in other fields like Yowah. The potch can have caramel colours from light to dark tan colours and each segment maybe have different polish results.

Sometimes the grains of the timber are clearly visible.

Wood fossil opal can be challenge to polish, but the results can be a specular unique boulder opal that has historical fossil inclusion.

Further Reading

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