Country origin record

Ethiopia

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 18, 2026

Overview Gem relationships Sources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Documented occurrence

Opal

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Production not assessed

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Evidence[1]

Within this country

Published places

Gemstone district

Wegel Tena, Wollo Opal District

Wegel Tena in Wollo Province is a documented volcanic source of play-of-color Opal, much of it hydrophane.

OpalOpen record

Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

[1]
Play-of-Color Opal from Wegel Tena, Wollo Province, Ethiopia.
Gems & Gemology · 2010
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