Kakholong snow-white ( Orenburg region) southern Urals,Russia

The price is presented per gram of the roughed stone without a choice.
Color white, material fresh,freshly processed, dirty or yellow!!! Please pay attention to these facts..
To choose from, with a lot of photos and a selection of the same size, weight and beauty will be - 20 rubles per gram.

The stone is all selected, without chips, scratches and damage. Perfect white, some with streaked( one,two for the entire stone), nice and smooth tactile effect...
The point is simple - the most natural real white opal with Orenburg region,Adamovskiy district. The manifestation of Yuzhnouralskaya known to Amateurs for several decades. Periodically, in limited amounts, it is artisanal mining cacholong.

Cacholong is a very interesting and mysterious substance. The mystery begins with the definition of its essence. Almost all sources in the network say that it is white opal. But the white opal is called milky and never sell for cacholong, as the status of opal are far higher. So what then is all these mountains of beads, trinkets and kabasanov of white material around?
It is actually very simple. You only need to dig a little deeper and seek more serious sources of the Soviet period. It was the Soviet, that in the Russian language, as all cacholong was on our territory. So, cacholong — substance is composed of a "mixture" of opal and chalcedony. Classic capolongo within a single piece (of the nodule) are seen in opal (more translucent) and chalcedony (opaque) zones. Besides, cacholong is not typical for opals glossy, oily cleavage.

Large deposits of cacholong does not exist yet, there is a tiny manifestation, today forgotten (almost developed).

Then what will we sell instead of cacholong? As a rule, four options. Howlite (gray stains on a white background), magnesite (slightly yellowish, scratched with a needle), white marble (visible grained structure and is easily scratched with a needle) or banal glass (smalt). All other options — exotic.