Auction Win: Hyalite Opal on Smoky Quartz
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Locality: Erongo Mountains, Erongo Region, Namibia
Size: Thumbnail - 1.3 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm
Cool combo thumbnail with bright green LW fluorescent Hyalite Opal on Smoky Quartz. The Opal glows from its high content of Uranium ☢️
Hyalite opal is a colorless variety of Opal-AN, an amorphous silica glass with about 3 to 8% water. The name comes from the Greek word for glass, and this form was first described by mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner. It often shows a bright green fluorescence under UV light.
The Erongo Mountains in the Erongo Region of central-west Namibia are an imposing, late Jurassic caldera-like volcano-plutonic complex that rises prominently above the surrounding terrain. They are especially prized by collectors for exceptional specimens of aquamarine beryl, schorl, fluorite, and jeremejevite, with many other minerals found as well-formed, aesthetic crystals. The area is also notable as the type locality for cheralite, and it remains one of Namibia’s most important mineral localities for distinctive cabinet and thumbnail specimens.
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