Fire Opal vs Fire Agate - What's the Difference?

Have you ever done segment on Dendritic Opal??
It always fascinating

A large sculpture with that huge fire opal would be beautiful and unique! Definitely don't cut it up into smaller chunks.

I wish you don't cut it. It's pain to see a big piece broken into small pieces

Can you do a video that has rough examples of agate and opal one would find on the ground

For the rough it would be nice to have at least some of it polished so you could see inside. I could see making just a couple of “window” facets and leaving some rough. It would be cool to make one big cut too! Not as excited about about making it into small pieces.

never heard of fire agate and they are beautiful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge on
Fire Opal and Fire Agate.
BTW I suggest curving fire bird on that big Fire Opal Rock.

great showkeep it up

Definitely think that large piece should be created into a single item - love the flame idea!

Keep the huge fire opal rough as is, the way it was formed and as a specimen. My favorite though, is the fire agate. Chalcedony, in any form, is just beautiful and can be found in landscape rocks. I just found a light orange-yellow oblong rock ( light passes through it ) that mysteriously has a cross ( similar to a Templar’s cross or Christian cross ) on it. These rocks are river rocks and most are beautifully “ tumbled “, by nature and I wouldn’t change a thing about it. I’ve also found agates amongst the lot and I have a lot of them and these are most beautiful. 💎

I have a few Mexican fire opal with play of color! It’s not crazy intense but it’s definitely nice play of color on the gorgeous orange opals! Fire agates I’m really getting into and I honestly have zero clue why I waited so long to get one, they’re gorgeous! I got a couple large Cabochons with the entire rainbow and they remind me of dragon scales🐉✨

Actually a lot of crystal opals (like from Ethiopia) are faceted.

Don't cut the big guy. It's quite easy to find many small pieces. A big rough like that, not so much

Ummmm Hello👋!!! A phoenix... Find a lapidary artist that will waste minimal material and carve it into a phoenix ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I'd make the coolest arrowhead with a slab from that big fire opal 🤤

Flame engulfed bird of paradise!

That big piece might do nicely carved into something for a water fountain.

Can you please make content on comparing fire opals and amber ?

Commission an artist to carve it into a Phoenix!

Maybe making a full, over the top parure with a tiara (with pieces that could be removed or worn as brooches or hair ornaments), that way everything could still be related. I’m sure some big publicity could be had if it were loaned to someone in the Dutch royal family. They are the House of Orange after all.

My birthday is 10/30 I’ve never been a fan of the opal that’s usually assigned to my birthday month, so I’m glad there’s different types of opal( I’m a newbie lol) ✨

I love your personal collection best because I have some of my oun very similar to it. I really love rockhounding.

as a flintknapper i would give my right arm for a piece of that stone to make a spear point

Don't do anything to the giant specimen of opal. Don't be selfish. Save it for the future , for a time when technology and wisdom are fought up with each other and perhaps this stone may serve some greater purpose other than using a flex arm to weaken its structure putting flames on it🙄

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I live in Wikieup, AZ and found a very large stone with fire agate or opal. if I send you a photo,could you confirm? It weighs about 30 lbs.

Don’t you dare break up that huge opal rough! It definitely needs to be an awesome carving or something!

Make it into a bird sculpture

Keep the Hugh fire opal as a specimen!!! One of a kind !!!

that yellow stuff is not opal. It has no value above colored glass. I';ll give you a dime.

I love the Fire Agate!!! I think as far as the large piece goes, I think it should be carved into something large and spectacular. BUT save whatever gets offcut as a sale item or giveaway! I would love fire opal chips!

Dice it up.

Where was the large fire Opal found?

I’d think the gorgeous heavenly rough shaped into a frog 🐸 would be awesome

Make a koi/goldfish sculpture with the fire opal.

Keep it in the rough. Keep it in the rough.

Team agate! ❤ Leave the rough as is.

I don't get why fire opal is valuable. I mean it looks nice, but so does a lot of obsidian and flint. I've seen this rootbeer flint thats very common in texas and has a beautiful brownish shine to it when polished, even the freshly cut faces of that look pretty similar to fire opal. Maybe I'm missing something due to seeing on video, but it always struck me as strange that even fire opal without play of color is valuable.

I think you should do a collaborative cutting with a couple to a few good lapidaries working together to design

October here ,so I have several opals...but no fire agate. How can I get one ?

If you don’t cut it at the very least you should polish it.

Purple is the most highly prize color seen in Fire Agate Chalcedony.

how come you guys only ever show low grade/commercial grade fire agate? the master carved pieces of slaughter mountain fire agate make mass produced Mexican cabs look like garbage

What is the price of the large raw crystal? I am very curious

Leave it as is :)

This fire agate You show hier is from Aguacaliente,but in the Creek mountains & Shlougter mountains(&Arizona - Mexico border We can get more nice material

Fire agates are so hard to cut!

Are you Team Opal or Team Agate? And what should we do with our huge fire opal rough? Let us know here!