Opal (var: Opal-AN) / (var: Hyalite Opal) (“Blood Vessel Opal”) silicate snow-white blades of Baryte forming

snow-white blades of Baryte forming a beautiful “flower”-shaped group on minor matrix

Clarence Coil in 1975

Specimen# CO712B172

so both ends had room to finish growing

doubly terminated

Opal (var: Opal-AN) / (var: Hyalite Opal) (“Blood Vessel Opal”) silicate snow-white blades of Baryte formingA rather gemmy, soft golden orange color, lustrous, globular group of Blood Vessel Opal Hyalite Opal featuring a group of intergrown spheres which get their color from tiny inclusions of iron oxide. A little below the surface, the specimen shows the thin capillary esque lines that give it such a unique appearance. One typically does not see Hyalite Opal of this quality and color on the market. Only a tiny bit of damage on the back, and attractive to