Opalite is not mined but manufactured. It was developed in modern times as an opalescent glass made to echo the milky glow of natural opal and moonstone. Makers fuse silica-based glass with metallic and mineral additives that scatter light, producing its signature blue-to-white sheen. It reached wide popularity as an affordable, luminous alternative to genuine opal.

Opalite is a man-made glass composed primarily of silicon dioxide (silica) rather than a naturally occurring mineral. Like all glass it is amorphous, with no ordered crystal structure. Its milky blue-white color comes from light scattering, the same optical effect (opalescence, related to the Tyndall effect) that tints a clear sky blue, not from the stacked silica spheres that create true opal's rainbow play-of-color. Its Mohs hardness is roughly 5.5 to 6.5.

As a modern man-made glass, Opalite has no ancient legend of its own; the lore around it is borrowed from natural opal and moonstone., Because it mirrors opal's shimmer, sellers have lent it opal's old reputation as a stone of vision and inner sight., and Its pale, moonlit glow has led modern crystal circles to link it, like moonstone, to the moon and to intuition.

I meet each change with a calm, steady heart, trusting my intuition to guide me and my voice to speak its truth clearly and kindly.