Red and orange fire opals are rare and renowned for their brilliant hues. Unlike other opals, fire opals are transparent and the play-of-color is more subtle. To see this many — over 150 carats ...

The fire of opals erupts from jewelry cases lining the ... Spencer miners find rarer blue, pink or red gems. “Our customers are generally jewelers and distributors,” said Bob Thompson, who ...

The world’s finest uncut opal, a 998-gram gem called the Fire of Australia ... It throws off a lot of red, which is one of the indications of a highly valuable piece of opal.” ...

Inside was an orangey-red fire opal that he likened to a flame, forever preserved in the sphere of igneous rock. Mr. Ruiz and his wife, Erika Rodriguez, are among the few people who have traveled ...

"It's gone through the roof," he told Yahoo News Australia — and it's a good thing he did because it had "rare red fire opal" hidden inside it. "It's amazing. This one's actually got a film on ...

The Fire of Australia is now ... Still largely in its original condition, the opal's two polished faces reveal a kaleidoscope of colours from green to yellow to red. "When my father was alive ...

a fire opal with specks of orange, red, yellow and green becomes an eye-catching starfish necklace, set against yellow ...

We have chocolate or fire opals… We also have the hydrophane opal, which features a range of colors like blue and red. A hydrophane opal has significant water content, and when placed in water ...

Ms. Genta described the opal watch as “very Gerald.” “My husband was a painter and he loved red and orange,” she said, “and he was constantly telling me that fire opals, which he had ...

The opals were investigated with a powerful scanning electron microscope and found to be most similar in structure to fire opals on Earth, so named for their brilliant orange, yellow and red ...