Featured Stone Identification Help

Necklace is by DRT Desert Rose Trading (Mine Finds by Jay King) an HSN Sterling jewelry line that uses some uncommon stones mined throughout the world.

anyone recognize the pendant stone or the beads?

 

Looks like opal in matrix of some type.

 

To build on Hollyblue's answer, this blog post has a picture of such a stone in a more raw form. https://ohbythewayblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-magic-of-minerals_13.html

 

I watch too much Outback Opal Hunters for my own good. Looks like matrix in manganese.

 

The beads look like potch opal or opal matrix, moonstone, or maybe really good opalite glass. Maybe a mix. Smart money is on lower grade moonstone. The good stuff doesn't get made into beads, and opal is a little fragile for the application. Lower grade opal with no fire or next to none sometimes does get made into beads, but it's too fragile to handle a pendant. Moonstone is a feldspar and would work better.

 

The beads look like blue chalcedony.
The pendant appears to be boulder opal.

 

Wow!!!

thanks a ton. My knowledge of opal varieties is severely lacking!

 

Rather than starting a new thread with the same title….

it’s another from the same designer.

It’s a lavender gray stone with mesmerizing circular bubble patterns. The beads appear to be a group of different stones, but the match nicely with the pendant.

sorry for the square shaped reflections… photo box isn’t great for everything

 

It's eye agate from unknown location.

 

Thank you!!!