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<p>[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 311847, member: 157"]If it is a real Opal it could be considered a black Opal, or possibly Blue Fire Opal and could be very valuable. What throws me is the way the green is distributed, it doesn't look natural, but it very well could be. The green flashes look too uniformly distributed. Here are pictures of black opal for comparison......as you can see some of the Black opal is in a blue matrix like yours.....what the line between blue and black opal is, could just be opinion. I don't know for sure.</p><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=black+opal&qpvt=black+opal&FORM=IGRE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=black+opal&qpvt=black+opal&FORM=IGRE" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=black+opal&qpvt=black+opal&FORM=IGRE</a></p><p><br /></p><p>And here is Blue Fire Opal. Blue Opal is basically Black opal with a lighter matrix. Any opal that was not white used to be lumped in as black opal....now the lighter colors are called Blue.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=blue+fire+opal&qpvt=blue+fire+opal&FORM=IGRE" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=blue+fire+opal&qpvt=blue+fire+opal&FORM=IGRE" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=blue+fire+opal&qpvt=blue+fire+opal&FORM=IGRE</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 311847, member: 157"]If it is a real Opal it could be considered a black Opal, or possibly Blue Fire Opal and could be very valuable. What throws me is the way the green is distributed, it doesn't look natural, but it very well could be. The green flashes look too uniformly distributed. Here are pictures of black opal for comparison......as you can see some of the Black opal is in a blue matrix like yours.....what the line between blue and black opal is, could just be opinion. I don't know for sure. [URL]https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=black+opal&qpvt=black+opal&FORM=IGRE[/URL] And here is Blue Fire Opal. Blue Opal is basically Black opal with a lighter matrix. Any opal that was not white used to be lumped in as black opal....now the lighter colors are called Blue. [URL]https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=blue+fire+opal&qpvt=blue+fire+opal&FORM=IGRE[/URL][/QUOTE]
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