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    FLUORESCENT HYALITE-OPAL. ...

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    FLUORESCENT HYALITE-OPAL
    Chalk Mountain, Spruce Pine, North Carolina
    This beautiful slab of hyalite opal is mostly white, but generously veined with grey and scintillating colorless crystal points around its edge. The top surface is carpeted, however, with a profusion of delicate pale green-blue crystals that spring to life with an unexpected vibrancy when exposed to short wave Ultraviolet light. Specimens of hyalite-opal from this locale are said to be the most highly fluorescent opal in the world, and this good-sized example measures 8½ x 6 7/8 x 2¼ inches.

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    2008 June Signature Natural History Auction #5009 (go to Auction Home page)
    Auction Dates
    June, 2008
    8th Sunday
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