BOULDER OPALS - How to Find and Identify | Liz Kreate 

I love how the speaker knows her business but stays on a level we all can understand. A true sign of brilliance and knowledge of subject thanks for sharing.

Love your videos Liz. I have learned so much from you over the years by watching you at your craft and I just wanted to extend my gratitude and appreciation. Not a lot of people these days will share their craft as it’s their bread and butter so thank you.

Really loving the education and the wonderful specimens you show! What a life you and Wally have!

I found you for your brilliant succulents and I kept watching for your fossicking and prospecting. I spent a lot of time with my grandparents as a child and they collected rocks and such that I caught the bug. My grandmother specifically loved Apache tears but my granddaddy didn’t discriminate and collected in cracked geodes. He never split them because he always wanted to imagine the beauty inside. After they passed my sister in-law did something with them and now they’re lost forever but finding your channel I get to relive some of my favorite memories of my childhood. Thank you Liz.

My favourite stone, breathtakingly beautiful. Thanks for the vid

These are probably my favourites, more so than gem opals I think. Such beautiful patterns and integration of colour. Gorgeous! Thankyou Liz :)

BEAUTIFUL.!! They certaintly don't look like anything at first. You have the magic touch🌻

Such beautiful creations. Opals are my absolute favorite gem. I’d pick an opal over a diamond any day. I am in envy of you. 😘 Thanks for the video.

Thoroughly enjoyed your video. I recently started collecting boulder opal. Love seeing where it comes from thank you!

How amazing!!!! It's my dream to go noodling for opals, they are my favorite stone ♥

lots of beautiful specimens, very nice

Those are absolutely beautiful! I have always loved opals. Thanks for sharing

WOW! just WOW! My son and I are amateur rock hunters. Thank you for doing these vids. Cheers

Nothing looks more impressive than a beautiful bright coloured crystal opal. Crystal is the best in my opinion.

The Matrix with roundcircle is gorgeous...I love Opal with blue inside...❤❤❤

😯 You just showed me my favorite stone. I've never seen these! Absolutely astonishing!!

Thanks for your video. I won't be going out to look for boulder opals but you provided a lot of useful info.

I really like how informative and helpful your videos are liz, My brother and I have recently taken quite an interest into prospecting and gem finding. I find your videos to be some of the most useful information I can find on the subject, and I cant wait for more content. but until then keep up the epic hunt for beautiful earth minerals, compounds and elements :D Love your work

Hello Liz :-) I just found you in RU-vid while going through the list of subs that I have and your video came as something I might be interested it and boy was RU-vid right :-) For the past few years I have been digging out my backyard by hand can not afford for someone to do it for me and I am so glad as I have found a iron/sandstone rock with opal in it. I thought this was just a random piece but after watching your video I am not so sure :-) I found it when I was sifting the dirt from the pile so I can use the dirt for my garden beds and I have piled all the rock of to one side in my yard at the moment. It was in one of the many loads of dirt and rock that I was sifting when I found my piece of opal rock, it has a good vain in it and it sits in my side cabinet after I had painted some water based varnish on it :-) to make the colours pop. This was before I started to learn how to make jewellery :-) but even so I think I will leave it as it is :-) I know it's opal as I have a three piece set of white opal and one piece of black opal. I will go back over that pile of rock before I use it for my concrete mix for the car port I think I will have to make sure there is no more in there :-) as it is I have been keeping some of the ironstone as I like the look of it and I am hoping it will polish up nicely for me to make some pendents. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge I know for one that I have learned so much more, and now I will keep a water spray bottle next to me while I am sifting the piles in the back yard :-) And yep I have subscribed :-) I love what you did on the shales too :-) Have a Great Day Chow Angela

Thanks Liz. Good vid. We are hoping to get to these areas later this year.

Oh my gosh! I am loving your videos so much! I'm learning heaps and you've got me very VERY interested in fossicking :D

Liz Kreate I love your work and how you find gems all over the place

We have never searched for boulder opals, but have found colour at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and Grawin over the years. Another enjoyable and interesting video Liz, thanks again.

Very informative and beautiful specimens x

Amazing! I'm a rock hound fr Ontario Canada, I'm comming out to Australia this spring...thx for posting

Thanks for this wonderful report, very helpful and informative. Opals are the most exciting stone - gifts from mother earth. Awesome and fascinating. Simply wonderful. Your video reminds me of great times in Australia. I was there for six months in 2012..Greetings from Austria. /Europe 🇦🇹💎🇦🇹👍🙏

Hi Liz, I'm a french Canadian and I always cherished the opals...my preferred one is the black opal!!!

Ohh OPALS😍😍😍😘 they always steal my heart... thx for making such vedios of these creations of time

Australia is a rock hounders paradise!!!

Excellent video ! WOW ! Liz those are some beautiful opal and I loved this video and I will put this video on my favorites !

You are a great teacher, Liz. Thank you for a fascinating video. I love your adventures.

I work with opals for my jewelry but the boulder opals are beautiful that you have shown. Thank you for your video.

Ahhhh Great video liz. I wish i could be out in the wild fossicking but I am stuck at school. When the holidays come up, I am going to go on an adventure to lightning ridge! :) Awesome Video!

Extraordinary Liz! I learned more from this video than from months of research regarding opal formation

- Wonderful vid, Liz - Most informative - Thank you so much - Looking forward to your next vid....

Danke schön 😚 Liz ! Wunderschöne Steine !!!

I love these videos, they are so interesting.

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Liz your awesome and creative. I love all you videos. Best of luck!

Oh my... That is truly magnificent!

Opalized sandstone? Cool. Thank you Liz.

My biggest piece of Opal was @ 2/12 ft by 1 1/2 ft was the Fire 🔥 Opal with the bubbly pockets. These are very Rare and Would make a nice addition to any collection. Thanks, video was great and always a pleasure.

Liz it has just been so fun watching your videos i will probably never get to see australia so i am so happy to get to watch what you are doing through your video. How fun i love the hunt and prospecting but here in MI we just don't have anything like you are finding in australia Have fun

Wow super cool stuff! I love opals! 😊 very good video!

You have some very beautiful pieces there. Many people would have passed those up because they didn't look like much. Good eye for color.

Liz I've been watching you and wally go out on these australian gem and gold hunting trips and oh what a life you have how fun. I wish i could get to australia and go out with you it would be so fun for me. I visited hawaii and met a woman that beach combs and she showed me how to find oliveen and we had so much fun looking for great shells and oliveen. Thank you for sharing your opal and other rare finds it has been so fun watching i just wish i could do it with you .

I would love to get mine hands on some of those to play with. I have a gold claim in the mountains in Idaho and wanted to play a bit during off season.

Very informative. Thank you

Very Beautiful Liz !

Wow I'm learning so much from you.

wow! lovin the blues and purple Magic Stones!

Wow Liz did you cut those yourself? You really know exactly how to bring out the beauty in these stones.

Very educational and interesting I learned alot. Great video thanks for making it.

opal is my gem of the month

Very informative video Liz loved it Thanks

I would love to visit you in Australia and go boulder opal hunting with you!!

Beautiful!!

thanks for sharing sis.. now i know how so beautiful that stone..

I love your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience with us :DD And DAMN!!! Those opals are amazing!!!

Peridot is a stone that also does not derive its color from impurities. Wonderful video. Thank you.

Hi Liz, ever notice the dendrites on opal...my opinion is that a jolt of electricity plays a part, and cause the opalization (electricity causes the dendrites) when all the chemical/mineral requirements are met...

Thank you, I learned so much from you. WOW!

I would need to be dragged out of those areas! Love it!

One of these would be amazing to find.

Those boulder opals are less boring than the Lightning Ridge, and Coober Pedy. I have been in Lightning Ridge, and Grawin, and since 3 months ago I'm in Coober Pedy.... seams like I have to go to Opalton in the future.... Thanks for teaching us... Regards

Hi Liz this is naseer 4rm Pakistan you are one man army.you are so talented hats off!!! These are my ist comments but I am watching your jems since 5 to 6 months ago.

I so wish I lived in Australia to find these awesome gems I wish I had opals

Wow ....love your vids ....so magical! thank you from California!!!! lol have a great day .

beautiful stones for my hand made jewellery.

Thank you for the education.

Love your videos😃

great vid thanks Shiela

Hey Liz, do you ever take groups out to dig for gemstones? I would love to go gem hunting and learn to grind them into useable pieces.

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Great Video! Do you sell ruff?

Amazing video as always, Liz! May I ask what the music is called in your intro?

Opals are my favourite!

Hi Liz, thanks for the video. Do you need a permit to go noodling on the old fields or have to buy a admission ticket for the day?

I love opals more than any other stone especially the sunset opal

Thank you so much i learned a lot

wow love that stone

I am a biginer and want to start doing what you do Liz Kreate

very interesting Excellent Content coming to add with you I will leave my deserved like I was there

I love your show great work thank you

Beautiful

These are some amazing specimen's, do u ever sell any? Or know anyone who sells pieces like these?

Hi Liz! I live in Newfoundland, where the second oldest rock in the world is. Where can you buy the same rock pick you have in this video? I am a fossil and rock enthusiast. I have a very small Geology background. Please help me to find one of these picks. Thanks for your videos and your time. Your videos are awesome!!!

interesting video thanks for sharing.

My life finally got it's purpose... finding this sweet li'l treasures

Oml I love ur channel!❤️ Uve made me discover a new interest of mine😂 would love to come to australia one day to noodle with u here💕

Precious and valuable stones

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Omg there are so beautiful I wish I could go find some!!

Love it

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I'm in awe:)

Got my sub and thank you.

When you wet them,they don't turn into gremlins,but pretty opals! LOL just found you're Chanel and after just couple videos I'm hooked to you're humour,knowledge,personality...I'm not even interested in rocks...LOL...of course love gemstones,opals,jewellery as any women,just was not geek for it...well,feel that something may stick to my brain from you,So subscribed and liking you're videos.All the best luck Liz-TY for videos,keep shining that bright personality of yours!

those are beautiful

Amazing! Just love the idea of noodling for opal. Are There people who make a living from this?