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| 4.06 carat black opal perfect stone |
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This black opal gem has the attributes of a perfect opal. With a pleasing oval shape and a high dome, it doesn't get much better than this.
It weighs 4.06 carats and measures 18mmx 9mm x 5mm thick.
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| 5.46 carat drop shape |
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This top black opal gem weighs 5.46 carats and measures 14mm x 10mm x 6mm
It has a high dome and is in a perfect drop shape.
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| 2.97 carat collection crystal |
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This top crystal opal has been in my collection for over 15 years and is now up for sale!
It weighs 2.97 carats and measures 12mm x 9mm x 4mm thick
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| 2.06 collection opal straw pattern |
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This awesome straw pattern black opal gem is a rare type of pattern
It has been in my collection for over 10 years
It weighs 2.06 and measures 10.5mm x 7mm x 4.2mm thick
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| 2.16 carats top gem collection red |
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This top gem red on black opal has been in my collection for 8 years and is now up for sale!
It weighs 2.16 carats and measures 8.5mm x 7.2mm x 5.2mm thick
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| 2.22ct top gem red collection stone |
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This top gem red on black opal has been in my collection for 15 years and is now up for sale!
It weighs 2.22 carats and measures 11mm x 6.5mm x 5mm thick
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| top gem crystal 5.89 carat collection stone |
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This top gem red crystal opal has been in my collection for 20 years and is not for sale!
It weighs 5.89 carats and measures 15mm x 10mm x 6.5mm thick.
It double sided and clear.
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| 10.98 carat black opal Solid Sebastian |
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10.98 carat black opal Solid
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Gemstone Jewelry
Gemstones and jewelry are a great match for blending the two together. Jewelry would not be the same without gemstones in this world. Most gemstones have been made up into jewelry through out the ages but no gemstone is quite like the black opal from Lightning Ridge, Australia. Gemstone Jewelry has been a way for people to show their wealth by wearing their valuables on their body.
Australian Black Opal
Australian Black opal is the most rare and expensive type of opal in the world.
With its dark body tone, Australian Black opal has the ability to make itself brighter than any other opal in the world. Lightning Ridge is the home of the Australian Black Opal. Australia is the lucky country with enormously rich gemstone abundance. Australian Black Opal is one of the most amazing and precious stones that exist on earth. The quantity of black opal that comes from Lightning Ridge supplies 98 % of the worlds rough black opal supply. There are many wild and wooly people living in and around the Lightning Ridge, and some people are there because they don’t want to be found.
Black Opal Ring
Lighting Ridge has amazing top quality opal called Black Opal. Most people who are into opals would like a Black Opal Ring because of its position on the body. It can be admired by other people, as well by yourself. If you’re looking for an opal ring stone? then buy the best there is and buy a black opal.
Opal Triplets
Opal triplets are an opal that has been enhanced by man. By gluing black opal potch on the back of a thin piece of rough opal and then gluing a glass or quartz dome on the top of the color, you have an enhanced triplet opal that has an amazing color play at the fraction of the cost of the real thing. These Opal Triplets are manufactured in large quantities with automated slicing machines.
Opal Mines
Opal Mines are amazing and mostly extreme places with only hard and strong people who live there. Opal mines have one very special thing in common; they are all edging on the ancient inland sea. Opal Mines look like moonscapes with holes in the ground and big craters as open cut mines. There is a lot of funny looking machinery scattered throughout the opal mines and all are used for moving dirt from underground. Many opal fields are scattered ghost towns today with the rush moving onto somewhere else once it has exploited. Opal mines are in areas where the environment can be very harsh. The temperatures can range from -5 degrees Celsius to 50 degrees Celsius. Lightning Ridge is a place where all this exists and is a very remote area of Australia. Opal mining machines are scattered all over the countryside and old and abandoned mines are scattered like a moonscape across the ridges where the rough opal is found. Opal prospecting is still the way to go for finding opal with 9-inch drills peppering the ground to find the next patch of opal. Opal Mines have given people from all around the world a live of abundance or poverty, depending how lucky they are.
Natural Opal
Natural rough Opal is a gemstone that has been taken from mother Earths ground and has not been treated in any way to show color. It is naturally formed and grown by high silica content in the ground were it can be found. Natural Opal can come from many different countries in the world. Lighting Ridge is a place in Australia that can produce some of the best opal in the world. Especially rough black opal
Solid Black Opal
Solid black Opal is the term used for a black opal that has not been treated or changed by man. A Solid Black Opal comes out of the ground by an opal miner and is left natural or cut into a solid black opal and can b worth a bucket load of money. Solid black opals come from Lightning Ridge in Australia and very rarely are found anywhere else.
Opal Mining
Opal mining can be a coloful and dangerous pastime. Digging holes in unstable ground where the opal is the danger that a miner has to endure every time they go down a hole. Opal Mining has made a very few select people in the world very wealthy but most people who try their luck only find themselves out of pocket with nothing to their name Lightning Ridge in Australia is a place that opal mining was very big in the 70s and 80s And produced some of the best black opal in the world.
Jelly Opal
Jelly Opal is a type of opal that is clear in body-tone and clarity, but still has color-play in the piece. Jelly Opal usually has alot of depth to the stone because of it clear nature. Jelly opal can come in many different body-tones from white to black crystal and can reach very high prices if it has red color-play in it.
Semi Black
A semi black opal is an opal that is not quite a jet-black opal. Semi black opal has a body tone of N3 and lower on the body tone darkness scale. Semi blacks are regarded a valuable opal but the price tag is usually not as high as a black opal. Semi Black is the term for a bluff stone, which can look like a true black opal but has a lighter body-tone making the stone less valuable but still has the atributes of a top solid opal.
Lightning Ridge Opal Rough
Lighting Ridge has supplied the world with opal for over 100 years now and has still some supply coming out of the ground. Lightning Ridge Opal Rough is the best in the world but also the most difficult to cut. Rough Black opal comes in many different forms from Lighting Ridge and much experience is needed to get the best out of the opal as possible. Black Opal can be so expensive that by cutting half a carat away can cost you thousands of dollars.
Custom Opal Jewelry
Opal is one of the most prestigious gemstones in the world and has been this way for thousands of years. Custom Opal Jewelry is a great but expensive way to buy and wear opal of great value. If you have a good jeweler you can take your opal to them to get set into the design of your choice. Your local jeweler will be able to help you make up a nice opal setting for you. Just make sure that the jeweler has had experience with opal before.
Opal Fossils
Most opal is found around the ancient inland sea in Australia where most animals had lived on the shore over a hundred million years ago. The animals as they died, their remains had been trapped in the sediment and eventually had formed into Opal Fossils. These fossils come in many different type and forms. They range from animal sculls to yabby buttons. There have been a few animal teeth found and even some were found some gem color in them. Rough opal fossil shells are a common type of fossil since all opal is found along a shoreline.
Opal Rubs
Opal buyers all around the world are buying opal rubs. Opal in this form is the best way for opal buyers to see what they are getting for their money with very little risk of losing the hard earned dollars. Opal Rubs have been rubbed out of rough opal and shaped to its approximate form before the polishing stage is started. Buying black opal rubs is the best way to safely buy expensive opals without buying polished or finished stones. All you need is an opal cutter to finish the opals to a polished state.
Gem Black Opal
Lightning Ridge has a vast variety of opal. But the most famous opal that comes from this rough opal rich area is Gem Black Opal. This opal is the most valuable in the world and is on the doorstep of the Australian outback. Gem Black Opal is found around the edges of the ancient inland sea that was here in Australia over one hundred million years ago. All of the black opal is mainly only concentrated in Lightning Ridge but small pockets have been found in Coober Pedy and Mintabie as well.
Black Crystal opal
Black crystal opal is an opal gemstone that has can reach very high prices and is even more rare than the elusive black opal. Black Crystal Opal usually has a great depth of field appearance because of its glassy effect. Most black crystal opal has a dark tint to it like tinted glass. This amazing and rare opal can also be called sunflash for the stones that are not as strong in color-play.
For more information on opal cutting or purchasing opal. Please email me or you can call me on Skype My username is Blackopaldirect and it's free!
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