Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) with Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite (var: Staffelite) Camp Bird 1 cm sitting nicely on

1 cm sitting nicely on the underlying host rock matrix

This is one of my favorite species from Bolivia

My favorite aspect of the piece is that the spheres are isolated(

This is one of the last pieces of this material that I have left so don't pass it by

Specimen # PAKAFGM51301

Opal-AN (Hyalite Opal) with Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite (var: Staffelite) Camp Bird 1 cm sitting nicely onWhen it comes to Hyalite Opal the proper name is Opal (var Opal AN) the specimens from Valec are the most famous in my mind. This material is essentially colorless and resembles lustrous glass beads. The historic old mines are now closed as they lay in a military reservation, and these specimens will never be found again. This beautiful piece features a group of intergrown glistening, colorless, spherical "bead" like nodules of Opal AN which have a