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Opal Queensland, Australia 15 x 6.3 x 5 cm ex-Bill Rudner. Way back when, a person could stop by Chris Wright’s place in Hot Springs and go through a bin with boulder opal rough. It was sold by the pound. That was okay because about 99.99% of it was ironstone matrix. I suspect that possibly as many as a dozen people have high-graded it before it got to the bin but every now and again Chris would put back a piece for that special person. Unfortunately, more often than not, I was usually not that person. (Author: Don Lum)

Opal
Queensland, Australia
15 x 6.3 x 5 cm
ex-Bill Rudner.

Way back when, a person could stop by Chris Wright’s place in Hot Springs and go through a bin with boulder opal rough. It was sold by the pound. That was okay because about 99.99% of it was ironstone matrix. I suspect that possibly as many as a dozen people have high-graded it before it got to the bin but every now and again Chris would put back a piece for that special person. Unfortunately, more often than not, I was usually not that person. (Author: Don Lum)

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