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Polished Australian opal specimens, direct from the mines in Australia:

from $15 to $2500 USD.

We are offering 4 varieties of beautifully polished Australian opal specimens : boulder opal, boulder opal matrix, pipe opal (crystal opal in sandstone)
and opalised wood, all from Queensland opal mines

Please note that our opalised wood is petrified wood with precious opal; it is not the common opalite which is a type of common opal.


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Product Code: PBS66
$15.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS66

Polished boulder opal specimen
50  x 25 mm   
Weight: 20 grams
Blue and green colours

Polished specimen #PBS66 sold

Product Code: PRPBS1
$15.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS1

Polished boulder opal specimen
33 x 29 mm

x 17 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 32 grams

Product Code: PRPBS2
$15.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS2

Polished boulder opal specimen
30 x 20 mm

x 19 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 20 grams
Blue and green colours

Product Code: PRPBS3
$15.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS3

Polished boulder opal specimen
35 x 34 mm

x 19 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 60 grams
Some green sparkles of colours

Product Code: PRPBS4
$15.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS4

Polished boulder opal specimen
39 x 24 mm

x 14 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 28 grams
Small green colour

Product Code: PPS1
$15.00 USD

Polished opal specimen PPS1   Polished opal specimen PPS1
Polished opal specimen PPS1   Polished opal specimen PPS1

Polished opal specimen
50 x 30 mm x 8 mm thick
Weight: 19 grams
Bright small electric green opals in the mother rock

Product Code: PRPBS5

$20.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS5   Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS5b

Polished boulder opal specimen
52 x 32 mm

x 21 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 47 grams
Various colours

Product Code: PRPBS6
$20.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS6   Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS6b

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 24 mm

x 16 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 30 grams
Mostly green colours

Product Code: PBS23
$20.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS23

Polished boulder opal specimen
64 x 39 mm

x 11 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 45 grams
Small traces of colours

Product Code: PRPBS7
$25.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS7

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 30 mm

x 19 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 35 grams
Various colours

Product Code: PPS2
$25.00 USD  

2 Polished opal specimens PPS2
2 Polished opal specimens PPS2   2 Polished opal specimens PPS2

2 Polished opal specimens
37 x 20 mm  x 14 mm of maximum thickness

and 37 x 25 mm x 15 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 23 grams & 16 grams
Small opals with bright gem colours including red

in the mother rock

Product Code: PPS3
$25.00 USD

Polished opal specimen  PPS3   Polished opal specimen  PPS3
Polished opal specimen  PPS3

Polished opal specimen
50 x 45 mm x 13 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 35 grams
Bright electric green opals in the mother rock

Product Code: PRPBS9
$25.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS9   Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS9b

Polished boulder opal specimen
49 x 34 mm

x 20 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 50 grams
Various colours with some red

Product Code: PRPBS11
$30.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS11

Polished boulder opal specimen
47 x 38 mm

x 26 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 56 grams

Blue and green opal

Product Code: PRPBS12
$30.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS12

Polished boulder opal specimen
58 x 53 mm

x 21 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 73 grams
Green colours

Product Code: PRPBS13
$30.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS13

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 29 mm

x 14 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 25 grams
Green colours

Product Code: PRPBS14
$35.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS14

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 32 mm

x 17 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 30 grams
Green with some red colours

Product Code: PRPBS15
$35.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS15

Polished boulder opal specimen
35 x 30 mm

x 15 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 30 grams
Various colours

Polished specimen #PRPBS15 sold

Product Code: PPS4
$35.00 USD

Polished opal specimen PPS4   Polished opal specimen PPS4

Polished opal specimen
35 x 30 mm x 10 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 16 grams
Bright electric green and red pipe opals in the mother rock

Product Code: PS3
$40.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PS3   Polished boulder opal specimen PS3

Polished boulder opal specimen
58 x 59 mm x 20 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 101 grams
Sparkles of bright electric blue, purple and green colours

Product Code: PSPS1
$40.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS1   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS1
Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS1

Polished boulder opal specimen
62 mm wide x 17 mm of maximum thickness

x 34 mm high
Weight: 46 grams
Thin veins of bright electric green colour

Product Code: PPS5
$45.00 USD  

Polished opal specimen PPS5   Polished opal specimen PPS5

Polished opal specimen
55 mm wide x 13 mm of maximum thickness

x 34 mm high
Weight: 30 grams
Bright electric green and red crystal opals

in the mother rock

Product Code: PSPS7
$50.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS7

Polished boulder opal specimen
32 x 45 mm
Weight: 37 grams
Blue and green opal

polished opal specimen #PSPS7 sold

Product Code: PRPBS18
$45.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS18   Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS18

Polished boulder opal specimen
52 x 38 mm x 38 mm tall

Weight: 115 grams
Green colours on one side

and various colours with red on the other side

Product Code: JEPBS3
$45.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS3

Polished boulder opal specimen
52 x 35 mm

x 37 mm tall
Weight: 116 grams
Blue and green colours

Product Code: PRPBS20
$45.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS20

Polished boulder opal specimen
32 x 25 mm

x 11 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 15 grams
Bright green colours

Product Code: PRPBS19
$45.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS19

Polished boulder opal specimen
43 x 27 mm tall

x 12 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 25 grams
Blue and green colours

Product Code: PS4
$45.00 USD

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen #PS4   Polished boulder opal matrix specimen #PS4c

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen
74 x 33 mm x 12 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 40 grams
Only the front and back are polished
This odd shaped specimen
has brilliant colours with red

Product Code: PBS73
$50.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS73

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 25 mm
Weight: 118 grams

Various colours

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS73 sold

Product Code: JEPBS5
$50.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS5

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 50 mm

x 28 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 80 grams
Blue and green colours

Product Code: PRPBS22
$50.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS22

Polished boulder opal specimen
39 x 63 mm tall

x 17 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 65 grams
Blue and some green colours

Product Code: JEPBS4
$50.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS4   Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS4b

Polished boulder opal specimen
47 mm wide x 27 mm of maximum thickness

x 49 mm tall
Weight: 79 grams
Blue opal with some green colour

Product Code: PRPBS21
$55.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS21

Polished boulder opal specimen
29 wide

x 37 mm of maximum thickness

x 36 mm tall
Weight: 70 grams
Green colours

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS21 sold

Product Code: PSPS8
$60.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS8   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS8

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 40 mm x 17 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 72 grams

Blue & bright green colours
The right hand side has not been polished to create a contrast

Product Code: JEPBS6
$60.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS6

Polished boulder opal specimen
27 x 47mm

x 32 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 70 grams
Blue and green opal

Product Code: JEPBS7
$60.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #JEPBS7

Polished boulder opal specimen
32 x 45 mm

x 25 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 66 grams

Blue opal

Product Code: PRPBS23
$60.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PRPBS23

Polished boulder opal specimen
36 mm wide

x 14 mm of maximum thickness

x 54 mm tall
Weight: 40 grams
Bright green colours

with some red

Product Code: PSPS4
$70.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS4   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS4
Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS4   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS4

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 mm wide x 27 mm of maximum thickness

x 55 mm tall

Weight: 100 grams

Thin veins of opal with small
sparkles of dark bright colours

Product Code: PS11
$60.00 USD

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PS11

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen
46 x 32 mm
Weight: 44 grams

Bright sparkles of green colours
Only the face is polished

Polished boulder opal specimen #PS11 sold

Product Code: PSPS3
$70.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS3   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS3

Polished boulder opal specimen
30 mm wide x 30 mm tick x 52 mm high
Weight: 68 grams
Thin veins of opal with brilliant green colours

Product Code: PSPS9
$70.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS9   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS9

Polished boulder opal specimen
65 mm wide x 19 mm of maximum thickness

x 43 mm high
Weight: 91 grams

Various colours

Product Code: PSPS10
$80.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS10

Polished boulder opal specimen
50 x 38 mm
Weight: 75 grams

Blue and green colours
Polished boulder opal specimen #PSPS10 sold

Product Code: PBS7
$80.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS7

Polished boulder opal specimen
60 x 50 mm
Weight: 92 grams
Various colours

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS7 sold

Product Code: PS8
$90.00 USD

Big polished boulder opal matrix specimen PS8

Big polished boulder opal matrix specimen
96 x 83 mm
Weight: 200 grams
Bright blue and green sparkles

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen #PS8 sold

Product Code: KWPBS5
$90.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #KWPBS5   Polished boulder opal specimen #KWPBS5

Polished boulder opal specimen
50 mm wide x 35 mm of maximum thickness

x 50 mm tall
Weight: 110 grams
Bright green colours and sparkles of red

Product Code: PSPS11
$100.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS11   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS11
Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS11

Polished boulder opal specimen
73 mm wide x 23 mm thick

x 53 mm high
Weight: 153 grams
Veins of bright gem colours all around

Product Code: KWPBS2
$100.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #KWPBS2   Polished boulder opal specimen #KWPBS2

Polished boulder opal specimen
68 mm long x 37 mm wide

x 25 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 112grams
Bright green and red colours

Product Code: PBS61
$120.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS61

Polished boulder opal specimen
80 mm long x 28 mm thick

x 32 mm high
Weight: 127 grams
Blue and green colours

Product Code: PBS60
$120.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS60   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS60

Polished boulder opal specimen
36 mm long x 33 mm wide x 29 mm high
Weight: 60 grams
Bright mixed gem colours

Product Code: PSPS12
$120.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS12
Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS12   Polished boulder opal specimen PSPS12

Polished boulder opal specimen
31 mm wide x 19 mm thick x 46 mm high
Weight: 67 grams
Play of various colours

Product Code: PBS62
$150.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS62

Polished boulder opal specimen
60 x 50 mm
Weight: 177 grams
Thick veins of blue/green opal

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS62 sold

Product Code: PBS40
$120.00 USD

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS40
Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS40   Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS40

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen
58 mm wide x 42 mm high x 12 mm thick
Weight: 53 grams
Multicolored sparkles including red

Product Code: PBS71
$150.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS71
Polished boulder opal specimen PBS71   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS71

Polished boulder opal specimen
63 mm wide x 31 mm high x 12 mm thick
Weight: 36 grams
Variety of colours, some brilliant

Product Code: PS9
$175.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PS9

Polished boulder opal specimen
102 mm wide x 40 mm high

x 28 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 170 grams
Brilliant colours

Product Code: PBS10
$200.00 USD

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS10   Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS10
Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS10   Polished boulder opal matrix specimen PBS10

Polished boulder opal matrix specimen
62 mm long x 50 mm of maximum width

x 29 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 85 grams
Play of bright colours, with red and red orange
Only the opal face is polished

Product Code: PBS63
$200.00 USD

Large slice of boulder opal matrix specimen polished #PBS63
Large slice of boulder opal matrix specimen polished #PBS63c

Large polished slice of boulder opal matrix specimen
170  x 95 mm X 9 to 14 mm thick
Weight: 330 grams
Traces of bright green and blue colours,

with some purple on both polished faces

Product Code: PBS36
$220.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS36

Polished boulder opal specimen
78 x 63.5 mm
Weight: 150 grams
Crystal opal
with purplish blue colour

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS36 sold
Product Code: PBS20
$250.00 USD  

Polished boulder opal specimen  PBS20   Polished boulder opal specimen  PBS20

Polished boulder opal specimen
72 mm wide x 12 mm of maximum thickness

x 37 mm high
Weight: 40 grams
Bright colours with flashes of red

Polished specimen #PBS20 sold

Product Code: PBSS2
$350.00 USD

Polished boulder opal split #PBSS2   Polished boulder opal split #PBSS2c   Polished boulder opal split #PBSS2d
Polished boulder opal split #PBSS2e   Polished boulder opal split #PBSS2f

Polished boulder opal split specimen (2 pieces )
1/ 55  x 60 mm x 14 to 24 mm thick -- 2/ 50 x 62  mm x 25 to 40 mm thick
Total Weight: 390 grams
Bars of bright colours
The 2 faces of opal fit together

Product Code: PBSS3
$400.00 USD  

Polished boulder opal split specimen #PBSS3   Polished boulder opal split specimen #PBSS3c   Polished boulder opal split specimen #PBSS3d
Polished boulder opal split specimen #PBSS3e   Polished boulder opal split specimen #PBSS3f

Polished boulder opal split specimen (2 pieces )
1/ 78  x73 mm x 25 to 38 mm thick -- 2/ 77 x 73  mm x 17 to 30 mm thick
Total Weight: 890 grams
Blue and purple, and some bright green sparkles of colours
The 2 faces of opal fit together

Product Code: PBS46
$350.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS46   Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS46bLeft
Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS46cRight   Polished boulder opal specimen #PBS46dRight

Polished boulder opal specimen with 2 faces of opal
110 x 53 mm
Weight: 193 grams
Various colours with some brilliant

Only the face is polished

Product Code: PBS64
$350.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS64

Polished boulder opal specimen
120 x 45 mm
Weight: 152 grams
Brilliant colours
Picture stone

Product Code: PBS48
$350.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS48   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS48

Polished boulder opal specimen
67 x 45 mm x 29 mm of maximum thickness
Weight: 115 grams
Mostly green opal
Only the face is polished

The opal runs right through underneath the ironstone in the center

The center could be removed entirely to reveal all of the opal

or only partly removed combined with some carving

and then the thickness could be reduced

to make a very original piece of jewellery

Product Code: PBS41
$450.00 USD

Polished slice of opalised wood #PBS41
Polished slice of opalised wood #PBS41
Polished slice of opalised wood
81  x 50 mm x up to 11 mm thick
Weight: 80 grams
Sparkling electric green colours
Very rare

Product Code: PBS43
$800.00 USD

Polished opalised wood specimen PBS43   Polished opalised wood specimen #PBS43c
Polished opalised wood specimen #PBS43c   Polished opalised wood specimen #PBS43e

Polished opalised wood specimen
with its petrified bark on the back
82  x 82 x 19 mm of maximum thickness

Weight: 200 grams
Sparkling electric green colours with some blue
The fossilised bark on the back is rough
Very rare

Product Code: PBS44
$1500.00 USD

Polished opalised wood #PBS44   Polished opalised wood #PBS44c   Polished opalised wood #PBS44d
  Polished opalised wood #PBS44g   Polished opalised wood #PBS44h

Polished opalised wood specimen

Both ends are highly polished;

the petrified bark around is in its rough natural state
94.40  x 70 x 35 mm thick
Weight: 350 grams
Opal matrix, full of pin fire multicolored opal, with lots of red on one end,
and quartz on the other end with some opal with  bright varied colours.
Very rare

Product Code: PBS45
$1800.00 USD  

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS45   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS45
Polished boulder opal specimen PBS45   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS45  

Polished boulder opal specimen
58 x 50 x 35 mm wide
Weight: 133 grams
Brilliant gem colours .
Originally, this boulder opal was surrounding the specimen PBS59

Product Code: PBS59
$2500.00 USD

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59

Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59   Polished boulder opal specimen PBS59

Polished boulder opal specimen
45 x 35 x 15 to 25 mm high
Weight: 59 grams
Brilliant gem colours .
Originally, this boulder opal was in the center of the specimen PBS45 above

The beige potch ( opal without fire ) could be carved

and the whole stone could be reduced in thickness to produce a stunning jewellery item

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