Virgin Rainbow - The most beautiful opal stone on the planet in Australia

Virgin Rainbow, the most beautiful opal stone on the planet, is on display in Adelaide's South Australia Museum.

Opal Virgin Rainbow is on display in Australia

The rainbow multicolored jewel is 6 cm long, found by miner John Dunstan in 2003 in the town of Coober Pedy in the South Australian desert and became the museum's possession 18 months later.

Opal stones (Virgin eye jewel) Virgin Rainbow with contrasting red, yellow, orange, green, blue colors, creating a beautiful beauty.(Photo: South Australia Museum.)

" It has an unrivaled quality and is completely transparent as crystal. Just like there is a fire inside, you will see all the different colors. When the light changes, the color of the jewel also turns. This is really a marvelous artifact of nature . " Brian Oldman, director of the museum, answered AFP.

About 90% of the opal stone in the world comes from South Australia, which was once covered by an inland sea for millions of years, creating a favorable environment for rock formation.

Opal stone was first discovered at Coober Pedy , which was later considered the world's opal stone capital, in 1914. Willie Hutchison found it on a gold mining expedition with his father.

According to Tech times, the gem is essentially the opal colored fossil of Belmnitida, an extinct mollusk, living during the Great Middle Age.

At this time, the long-necked Plesiosaur, a prehistoric reptile, was widely distributed in the interior waters of southern Australia. When they die, their bodies sink to the bottom of the sea and are gradually formed by sediment layers thousands of years later, buried deeper.

Over time, the sea dried up and turned into a desert . Acid concentration increases gradually in shallow sandstone layer above. Weathered sandstone produces silica below and crept into the clay floor, where reptilian dinosaur bones are buried and swarmed with groundwater. The reduced acidity then causes the flexible silica layer to harden into solid, creating a brilliant opal stone.