All opal is different with no piece of opal that looks the same.
Unique types of opal jewelry are different the world around.
The most individual type of opal is boulder opal. Since boulder opal is formed in curving seams in the brown ironstone, the shapes can be undulating or very uneven. So making the boulder opal a shape that is not the conventional oval shape is much more accepted.
Most Queensland’s large boulder opal pieces are used for making pendants, and the designs can be beautifully unique just like the boulder opal itself. Boulder opal pendants are a popular gemstone in Japan, Europe and America. Opal pendants are one of the most popular types of opal jewelry next to an opal ring.
Boulder opal comes from Queensland in Australia only. It is a unique type of opal that no other opal fields in the world can produce.
The colors that boulder opal can produce are light to black opal with colors like blue, green orange, red and every shade in between.
The process that boulder opal has to go through is a lot more messy and difficult to extract out of the ground with large excavators being used to move the opal bearing dirt.
So when you next look at a boulder opal pendant remember where it has come from and what process it has gone through to be hung around your décolletage.
For more information on opal cutting or purchasing opal. Please email blackopalsdirect@live.com or you can call me on Skype My username is Blackopaldirect and it's free!
