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Topic: 24 hour auction **UNTREATED African Welo opal from Ethiopia 2.48cts** SPICY - page 2. (Read 3959 times)

legendary
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Merit: 1000
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13BTC includes registered air mail with online tracking.  Superb price for a high quality, beautiful and UNTREATED Welo opal from Ethiopia.
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1000
Truly decentralized stable asset
13.5BTC includes shipping via registered air mail with online tracking
legendary
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Merit: 1000
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13.75BTC includes shipping via registered air mail with online tracking
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1000
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This auction ends:

Sunday, March 4th at 08:59:31 AM
legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1000
Truly decentralized stable asset
That's a nice bold lightning strike of reddish-Orange that you see lighting this stone up!  This is a totally natural untreated pear-shaped opal from Ethiopia and you are sure to love the color and patterns you see in this amazing stone.  The swirls and lightning bolts in both reddish-Orange and intense green have to be seen to be believed. 



One of the secrets to opal's amazing display of color is that it contains up to 18% water.  There are also micro spheres of silica inside these gemstones that can be seen with an electron scanning microscope- the other piece of the "play of color" puzzle.  Before such technology was available people could only speculate on what made opals do what they do.



Because my wife Melanie and I actually live in the largest colored gemstone trading center in the world, it is very hard for others to compete with our quality and our pricing.  The supply chain for quality colored gemstones is long, and by the time you see them in Western consumer markets so many chefs have had their hand in the pie that the cost is exorbitant.  With bitcoin and the internet, there is just no reason to pay crazy premiums for quality gemstones.



In the "olden days" gemstones used to be divided into two categories- precious and semi-precious.  This is outdated now, but so you are aware the "precious" gemstones were diamond, opal, ruby, sapphire, and emerald.



This beautiful pear-shaped opal weighs 2.48 carats and measures 13.04 x 8.14 x 5.42mm deep.  African opals are coming into their own as more and more people discover the beauty of their colors and textured patterns.  It used to be that the premium for Australian material was huge; African opal was considered a low-cost substitute.  But as higher and higher quality opal finds its way from Ethiopia to the consumers and they see the quality of the stones the prices are rising rapidly.  Why own an average Australian opal with almost no play of color- just a murky, milky look- when you can own an opal with dazzling flashes of color for about the same price?  This is driving demand for Ethiopian opal in the current market.

This stone will begin at 14BTC and the bid increment is .5BTC.  It's only 24 hours so bid now if you are interested- don't let it get away from you!
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