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2. Opal - Wikipedia

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   A Peruvian opal (also called blue opal) is a semi-opaque to opaque blue-green stone found in Peru, which is often cut to include the matrix in the more opaque stones. It does not display a play of color. Blue opal also comes from Oregon and Idaho in the Owyhee region, as well as from Nevada around the Virgin Valley. [17] Opal is also formed by ...

3. List of individual gemstones - Wikipedia

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   Andamooka Opal, presented to Queen Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen's Opal; Flame Queen Opal; Galaxy Opal; Halley's Comet Opal, the world's largest uncut black opal; Olympic Australis Opal, reported to be the largest and most valuable gem opal ever found

4. List of minerals - Wikipedia

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   Amethyst crystals – a purple quartz Apophyllite crystals sitting right beside a cluster of peachy bowtie stilbite Aquamarine variety of beryl with tourmaline on orthoclase Arsenopyrite from Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico Aurichalcite needles spraying out within a protected pocket lined by bladed calcite crystals Austinite from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico Ametrine ...

5. World's most expensive opal literally glows in the dark - AOL

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   Meet the "Virgin Rainbow" – perhaps the finest and certainly the most expensive opal on record. It literally glows in the dark. In fact, as it gets darker around the opal, the opal appears ...

6. Rare cache of pink diamonds formed when a supercontinent ...

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   Pink diamonds are extremely rare and coveted — a now-closed mine in Australia has been the source of 90% of the colored gemstones. Polished pink specimens of the highest grade can sell for tens ...

7. List of gemstones by species - Wikipedia

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   Actinolite. Nephrite (var.); Adamite; Aegirine; Afghanite; Agrellite; Algodonite; Alunite; Amblygonite; Analcime; Anatase; Andalusite. Chiastolite; Andesine ...

8. Beverly the Bug - Wikipedia

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   Beverly the Bug is the first and only known opal with an insect inclusion. It contains "the exoskeleton of a nymphal insect belonging to the order Hemiptera and either the family Tettigarctidae or the Cicadidae". [1] It was found on Java in 2015. [2] Gemologist Brian T. Berger purchased the gem in 2018 and named it Beverly the Bug. [3]

9. Oprah wasn't always Oprah: Her birth name revealed - AOL

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   Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...