World’s Most Expensive Opal Literally Glows In The Dark
The 'virgin rainbow' is the world’s most expensive opal—worth more than $1 million.
Meet the "Virgin Rainbow" - perhaps the finest and certainly the most expensive opal on record.
It literally glows in the dark. In fact, as it gets darker around the opal, the opal appears ever more vibrant.
The stone’s vivid and sparkly nature is in stark contrast to Coober Pedy, Australia where it was discovered.
The area is a hot, more-or-less desolate and barren desert laid waste by millions of years of heat, heat and more heat. The mining community was built underground and looks more like Tatooine than Earth.
But, it used to be the aqueous home to untold
Meet the "Virgin Rainbow" - perhaps the finest and certainly the most expensive opal on record.
It literally glows in the dark. In fact, as it gets darker around the opal, the opal appears ever more vibrant.
The stone’s vivid and sparkly nature is in stark contrast to Coober Pedy, Australia where it was discovered.
The area is a hot, more-or-less desolate and barren desert laid waste by millions of years of heat, heat and more heat. The mining community was built underground and looks more like Tatooine than Earth.
But, it used to be the aqueous home to untold