Mineral variety Healing crystal

White Opal

✦ Stone of Light-hearted Joy ✦

Crystal lore: 🎨 Creativity 🔮 Intuition 💗 Love

Variety of Opal.

White Opal specimen — Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia 2.jpg · Wikimedia Commons (see file page for author & license)

📜 Key facts

Age	Cretaceous host rocks; the opal formed later
Origin & sources	Coober Pedy and Mintabie, South Australia.
Composition	Precious opal with a white or light body tone (also called light opal). Opal is hydrated amorphous silica (SiO₂·nH₂O), Mohs 5.5–6.5.

How it forms

Silica-rich water seeped into cracks, cavities and fossils, then slowly evaporated. Tiny silica spheres settled out. In precious opal they are stacked in a neat, regular grid that diffracts light into play-of-colour. In common opal they are jumbled.

Mineral data: see Opal.

🌍 Where it's found

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Marker positions are approximate (region or locality level). Type localities from Wikidata; notable sources curated by Crystopedia.

✨ Metaphysical & Folklore

These are traditional and folk beliefs from crystal lore. They are not scientific or medical claims – crystals are not a substitute for professional care.

Light opal is linked in lore to joy, creativity and gentle optimism.