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All Opals below were found at the Lightning Ridge mining area in Australia.
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Unusual boomerang-shaped black opal found in the Coocoran area in Lightning Ridge, Australia in 1999..

The "Digger's Rest" is a 5.5 carat black opal with a rare Harlequin pattern.

"Picasso's Palette" is a 5.04 carat black opal found in the Coocoran area in 1994.

The "Red Cosmos" weighs 735 carats at this stage before it was recut.

"The Sail" is a 36.6 carat black opal with a strikingly beautiful pattern.

"Triassic" was discovered at Dun's Rush in 1999.

Another amazingly beatiful Lightning Ridge black opal discovered in 1999.

This 4.7 carat black opal was found in the Norway field in 1994.

This is a 9.9 carat Lightning Ridge black opal.

This is a 13.86 Lightning Ridge crystal opal appraised at $27,000 by opal expert Paul Downing. It's unfortunate that we had to part with this fiery beauty.