Real Life Fantasy: Rainbow Obsidian
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Behold, a giant chunk of hellstone, crafted into a work of fine art:

From Heritage Auctions
And this one, which I think is a
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Here’s a chunk found in Davis, California:

And another found in Glass Butte, Oregon:

And this one, found for sale from someone in the UK:

This post is, I think, pretty self-explanatory.
Those are some glorious specimens. I know that I took the family looking for some rainbow obsidian out at Glass Butte, and it’s not as easy to find as it looks.
I brought home 100 pounds of black and black/red striped but didn’t have any luck finding rainbow.
I wonder if it would be worth digging for it as opposed to just picking it up from the surface
I grew up in Oregon. As a kid I would actively look for Obsidian and collect it. I had multiple large coffee cans full. I found at 1 point a piece that had to be 50, 60 pounds. Huge.