Night Stone Jewelry

Well, I’ve been cutting opal for over 3 years now. This past week marked the 200th opal cabochon that I’ve cut which was of sufficient quality to “bag and tag”. Meaning I liked it enough to measure it, weight it, and all that.

So, simple though it may be, here is 0200CP12m

Still no ID on this, but it really came out interesting.

While Virginia doesn’t have the most exciting rocks, we go looking for them anyway, and just pick up whatever looks nice. Mostly for our gardens, but on this trip we were hoping to get some Unakite.
Unfortunately, I totally forgot to really study pictures of slabs and rough online before going, so we only had basic memory to go on. We found some stuff that is definitely *not* Unakite, but took home anyway as it is my understanding that the location we went to also has some jasper. There are a *lot* of different kinds of jasper across the world, so I have no idea what we were even looking for. Just that it wasn’t going to be Ocean Jasper, as that is from Madagascar.
Pictures were taken dry and outside, but it was a little overcast. A couple of the closeup images have been enhanced using brightness/contrast in Photoshop to try and get a bit closer to the color in brighter light.