Nevada Rainbow Ridge Opal Mine Adventure! 

Thanks for your support Ray! I miss exploring with you brother!

Some people will make up anything for a dollar. I felt like I was in a world of rumor the way everyone says something different.

Jeeze I wish they had told me that. I’m not really doing anything with the gypsum.

How do I stabilize the opal that is still in wood? I started cutting some wood and found the opal in it but I can’t get the cab to polish.

That would also be good to know lol. Spent the day polishing opals on the cab machine today.

I most of my time harvesting the ones that were dry already. Got lucky finding a couple water opals in other people scoops when they left.

@loveinstonecreations that's a lot of dirt to sift through. You'd need four or five people, but maybe they got the money's worth quickly?

The scoops can be done with two hard workers but you are allowed as many as 3 people. The tailings are great for anyone

For walking around, I forget if it’s 75 or 100 per day. For a scoop of fresh tailings from their giant machine $900. My buddies did a scoop and scored. Nothing is guaranteed at these places tho.

Oh in the video I said 100.

Thanks 👍 I pulled up the website and saw some of the videos on their place. I'm so in love with looking for rocks. Unique stones have always been a magnet for me. My bucket list item is searching for opal. I'm so fascinated with opal. I have my second brain tumor now and Australia is not an option. I dig petrified wood and fossils out of the ground here and I feel like I have won the lottery. Thanks for the info and the great video. 🥰

This comment means so much to me! Thank you so much! Make sure to check out my spencer opal video as well. I wish you good health and happy hunting! Thanks for watching!

Watch the video of the gift shop. The biggest and best one that they have come up with is in the video

Not like the Nevada precious opal woods. edit. Oh no. That one is only the biggest chunk of opal they got after a bulldozer hit it and rolled the rest down the hill. They sold that mine and kept the one the Roebling came out of and all testimony was it was not one of the biggest and best from the early days.There are the ironstone boulder opal logs, but all the ones I saw only had the same 3/4 inch thick or so pay layers with veins in matrix not solid opals. I have a 7oz black in my safe deposit box Ive never seen any comparable uncut from down under. Yeah it is a fossil cast of a stem.

Australia has more opal hands down. It is very rare out here. The quality can be very good tho out here.

It is very coveted actually. Pretty expensive stuff.

Save some and we can be rock pen palls. I’ll send you some rocks and you send some rocks too. Send me an address and tell me what you are into.

Do you find better royal opal in Kansas? What do you find in Kansas? I would love to come dig there some time.

@loveinstonecreations I've seen several different RU-vidrs do video on this place. I'm just saying there wasn't anything special to me on your video or the other ones. Not worth me going there and pay to dig for what? Petrified wood. I can find that here. Clear rocks with color are everywhere. By the way, I walk creeks, no digging in the creeks. I don't dig.

Opal mining is a big gamble. Many people often find very little opal. That’s why the price is so high. My buddies got a scoop and pulled out things that would pay for their scoop. The thing is, the price of this opal is so high that if you find some, it’s worth it. They also pulled a log, if it’s opalized it could be a 30k log. The scoops are where the really good stuff is. It’s a gamble and that’s what makes it an adventure.

I would like to see what you are finding in Kansas.

I went there and found tons of awesome opals that were actually pretty good pieces

Seriously lol. Opal mining is so hit or miss. Some people didn’t find anything near what I found. Others find things worth thousands or even tens of thousands. I’m glad I went to rainbow ridge or I wouldn’t have had much at all.