Pink Opal Crystal Guide: meaning, origin & properties
Learn what Pink Opal is, where ours comes from, traditional associations across cultures, and how to identify a real specimen, in our complete Pink Opal Crystal Guide.
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Sourced through a regional cooperative or community-based workshop. Processing and economic benefit stay local, which means more of the value reaches the people doing the work.
Read our Sourcing Standards →This is an A-grade Pink Opal sphere from Ica, Peru. As a hydrated silica it holds water in its structure, so it is kept away from dry heat. The exact piece pictured measures 2.94 inches (74.7 mm) across and weighs 467 grams at Mohs 5.5-6.5, natural and untreated. Hand-cut and hand-polished, finished with no coating or filler.
Pink opal is a common opal, meaning it carries no play-of-colour, and reads instead as a soft opaque pink shading toward peach and cream. Peru is the source most collectors know it by. The colour varies across a single piece, which is why a sphere shows it better than a flat cut.
This sphere was hand-cut and hand-polished from material out of Ica, Peru.
Pink opal turns up most often around gentleness, the kind people extend to others easily and to themselves rarely. It is traditionally linked to the heart chakra. If that resonates, keep it by a bed or a reading chair rather than a desk. How you work with it is your call.
These are traditional associations drawn from historical practice. This stone is not a substitute for medical or mental health care.
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