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Tiffany Opal Slab

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This stone only comes from one very small area of beryllium mines in the Utah desert where they mine beryllium for use in missile nose cones. It is not open to the public for collecting and very little of this material sees anything other than the ore crusher to extract the about 1% to 2% beryllium contained in the opal tuff. Another beautiful rock lost for war purposes :disbelief: Maybe I save a life by purchasing this hard to find gem :peace:


Anyway this is a fine slab I have that will eventually be cut into cabs. You can see some cabs I cut from another slab of Tiffany opal here:)~ [link]
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Purple is my favorite color and this is just gorgeous! Thanks for sharing about this amazing stone. It's sad that it's just crushed up. Congrats on being able to save this amazing slab.