#cherry opal

Your English sounds just fine to me!  Wanna see my collection of opals under a microscope???

This is Queensland precious opal, known for its blue undertones and multicolored flash.  It is perhaps the most traditional of my opals.  Here’s what it looks like under a microscope!

Those soft colors are really lovely.  It looks kind of like an abstract painting or something, doesn’t it?

This one is also from Australia, and it’s my personal favorite opal in my collection!  This is Australian boulder opal!

A microscope is the best way to view this one!  Each one of those tiny, tiny cracks is filled with flashy, brightly colored opal!

This is Mexican cherry opal.  While this particular piece is a pastel pink, cherry opal can come in really vibrant red, too!

Cherry opal is a “potch” or common opal, meaning it doesn’t have any flash, even under a microscope.  Just a nice, consistent pink color!

Also from Mexico, this is a Mexican fire opal, named for its bright red color!  This one does have a little bit of flash, which becomes super clear under a microscope!

The flash in this one is mostly red and green.  I think those greens look really cool against the red matrix!

Actually, I’ve got a whole jar of Mexican fire opals!  I keep these stored in water because they become pretty fragile if they’re allowed to dry out.  Most of these are common opal, but with a microscope I can find some interesting flashes hidden in there!

There’s a cool one!  They’re hard to photograph through the glass.

Here’s my collection of Ethiopian precious opals!  Most of these are pretty translucent, but the opaque white one in the top right is what’s known as “milk opal,” meaning it’s... well, opaque and white!  The flashes in Ethiopian opal tend to be more isolated, and also very bright!  Like little fireworks!

That one in the bottom middle is my favorite.  His name is Spot.

This is another Ethiopian opal, and it has the brightest flash out of all of my opals!  This is Ethiopian chocolate opal, so called because of its chocolatey brown color.

Under a microscope, it has some really interesting patterns!

And also shows off some blue and greens that weren’t visible to the naked eye!

Last of all is a very cool and unique looking type of opal that you’ve probably never heard of before.  This is Honduran matrix opal!  This stone normally looks boring and grey, and those glittery flashes of color only appear when the rock is wet!

Under a microscope, you can see the tiny, tiny flecks of microscopic opal speckled all through this rock!  I think it’s interesting how they grow in bands of different colors.

She's the cocky and smug fusion of Chocolate Pearl and Raspberry Quartz (dark)

(ty @artifiziell for the gem ❤❤)

Could you draw Cherry Opal being the smug shit she is? or maybe Beniotite with Mercury?

---you don't have to if you don't want to---

aleheather fusion..

Was looking for a coloring warm-up, so I did @lilbowpepsworld 's Cherry Opal 🍒 :)