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Fire Opal from
Voznesenovka, Martuk District, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan


Classification
Species:Opal var: Fire Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Fire Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Voznesenovka, Martuk District, Aktobe Region, Kazakhstan
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:687409
Long-form Identifier:1:3:687409:4
GUID (UUID V4):9bedd6c2-3bf1-453a-8929-94b6fe50f008
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minerals Article A Review of the Classification of Opal with Reference to Recent New Localities Neville...Abstract: Our examination of over 230 worldwide opal samples shows that X-ray diffraction (XRD) remains...for delineation and classification of opal-A, opal-CT and opal-C, though we found that mid-range infra-red...provenance. The corpus of results indicated that the opal-CT group covers a range of structural states and...At the one end are the opal-CTs that provide a simple XRD pattern (“simple” opal-CT) that includes Ethiopian
 
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