Opals on Mars hint at planet’s wet past

…pa/opa(N)=tint, paint=opal. in mexico they leech through
red clay soil around the state of queretaro, and are called fire opals, when they are not translucent and don’t shimmy and shine
they are called agata/agate of opal and are jujube brick color.
an opal represents thousands and thousands and probably millions
of years of rainfail passing through the soil and form in little
hollows below the surface, a chemical soil sample cristalized=
c(r)e(s)tl(letra)=cetl(N)=ice(the oneness/ce of water).
i dealt with them in my antique store, being not far away from
the source, the bajio of guanajuato is rock hound’s paradise,
fields are full of small quartz and other minerals that seem to
have showered out of past volcanoes like rain, we’ve have meteor
showers, the last big one in ´68, not much between us and outer
space on the high plains/altoplanicie at 2k metres/6,500′.
of course opals are very fragile and if you wear one or make
jewelry out of them have them set in and protected by a collar
of silver or gold. i had a jeweler make octopi pins with mine,
set on the legs like disks, was able to use up the really small
ones and the silver backing brought out the blue in them, i called
those my water opals, then there were the chanpagne opals, a nice
bubbly yellow. i don’t recommend making rings of them as the hand
is quicker than they eye and sooner or later they’ll hit something,
but i never wear rings anyway.
sometimes opals cloud over, they miss the water that formed them perhaps or haven’t finished the process of annealing themselves
to eternity, or maybe it’s an offshoot of limestone, whatever the case they can cloud on you, my first experience with opal was
through a comic book, a western, that touted opals as bad luck,
so for the cloudy ones i keep them in water, which is probably not a bad idea for any opal as atl(N)=water is their heaven.