Informative video sir about opal I really get a true information from your video, one question sir in last of video you showing a yellowish volcanic opal also it does find in Australia or Africa I got this been cutting, now day's also, is it valuable?
I recently found a few yellow body tone opals in a rough parcel from Australia. All 3 cut perfectly transparent gems. Two of the 3 have play of color, flashes of blue. Seller listed source as Coocoran. They are really quite beautiful. However, I have no idea if they have much value. I cut them as cabochons. However, they'd probably be even more magnificent if faceted (not in my skill set). Had a couple others in same parcel that had a greenish body tone with blue play of color. While these are crystal opals as well, they are a bit cloudy.
I am from Mexico and I have a brazalet with opals. they are so beautiful. orange opals, transparent with rainbow. I have a stone with opal it is blue and green and orange. I like so much.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. It doesn't seem like it matters but you never know what you just shared could change someone's life, or even save it.
Thanks for the video. I plan to prospect for opal & other gems in the U.S., primarily in In Texas. Eventually I would like to cut & polish the stones. Cheers! Israel
Great video, I had just bought a white Australian Opal ! They do look translucent in nature ! However those black and crystal opals are so damn beautiful. In India white Australian Opal is also known as Fire Australian Opal.
Hopefully when I get there you can point me in the right direction and I have a little geology experience and platonic movement and I plan to use this to locate new locations
What do you know about NZ opal? I found a green crystal opal in Tairua river the other day. It's very similar to the last one you show, with no colour play, but it is totally transparent when you shine a torch through it you can see the opposite sides face.
Nothing can compare to opal. My father passed recently & he loved opal hunters. Watching this made me think of him. I wish I could get a locket with an opal in remembrance of him but I'd never be able to afford it. I'm native American. Father was right, nothing compares to an opal.
I'd like to know if in order to make opal Black, someone puts a black backer on crystal opal (or any other treatment) is that considered Black Opal or is it a cheat. How does one know real opal from something that has been treated to look better than it's natural look ? If crystal opal is put on a black background, can it be genuinely considered black opal ?
SnowTiger45 Hi snow. Yes it is a cheat if it has been man made. It is then called a doublet. But Mother Nature creates a natural black opal mainly found in lightning Ridge. Which is the most valuable type of opal in earth. Thanks for the question. 😊
Hey mate, I have a reasonably large tintenbar opal (not sure if it can be called that as it was actually found in a creek in Nimbin) I'm wondering if you can make a video on tintenbar opals and surrounding areas, it's my understanding there are a number of mountains slightly inland in NSW where volcanic opals can be found in creeks and I would be very interested to hear your take
I was going to say something very similar mate, myself and a good friend of mine were shown an extremely good source in these hills by an 70yr old bloke that used to dig what he called it as "Honey Opal" which isn't coming from a creek we were hammer and chisel's straight from the deposit. There's not a lot of info on if which I'm sure you have found as well - hence your questions. We are in a similar boat seems to be a topic not really spoken about
I’m relatively new but purch a vintage white opal for my wife, which she LOVES. I have yet to see a black opal that blew me away as much as crystal, semi-crystal, white or dark. Black opal -weirdly- turns out to be my least favorite. I think “holograms” became widely available in the mid-1980s when I was a kid. Once humans could make holograms easily, maybe the ‘magic’ of black opal diminished and I just look for overall beauty and there’s so much beauty in crystal and white an grey (dark / semi-dark), and black just seems less interesting. My opinion, of course. 🇺🇸🇦🇺♥️
I was given a crystal opal for my 18th birthday (a long time ago) Its a really pretty 18 carat gold ring surrounded with flawless diamonds. My mum bought it in an antique shop. Recently I wanted to get the opal re-polished as I've worn the ring a lot. They told me that to polish the opal they would have to remove it from the setting and daren't do this incase they damage it. (This is in the UK). If they could of done it they would of charged me £500 which sounds like a crazy amount. I'm wondering if I should send the ring off to experts in Australia... what do you think?
Hi Jan, was reading your comment and I noticed you do something I used to do all the time. I would always write "could of", "would of" and should of" when I was first commenting on RU-vid, until someone pointed out it's really "should've" or "could've" or "would've", like a shortened "could have", "would have" etc. Hope you get your ring sorted, there's nothing be more beautiful than opal! I'm well jealous!
Citrine is basically a variety of Quartz. Completely different - when both faceted to the untrained eye they can look similar. I've had many people mistake some of my faceted Volcanic/Honey Opal as Citrine 👍
Hmm thats a nice thing to say. Can you back that comment up? Because if you can't Mike you may have a law suit coming your way. You must be competition or jealous to say a thing like that.
I absolutely LOVE your Australian accent and when you say Opal it sounds like "Op-ole" hehe its fascinating listening to you.... and learning of course hehe
Just like the first set of opal you show I know where to find more and it's not in lightning ridge it's in Cloncurry Queensland get back to me and I will give you the location
So, was that last yellow opal what's known as Fire Opal? I've seen them mining for red Fire opal and orange Fire opal on "Outback Opal Hunters", but didn't see that yellow type.
Hi I need help... So I got this opal ring yesterday because the person that sold this ring to me said that its my lucky gemstone. She said that this opal is from Australia and it looks transparent sometimes, sometimes its opaque and sometimes it's just colourful. But what really bothers me is that the opal turns transparent right after there's water in contact with it and it releases an odor. It smells like oil if I'm not mistaken. Also once it turns transparent I could see water moving around the opal which makes me to think that it might be fake. I've never owned any gemstones so I'll really appreciate it if anyone would help me by telling me what you feel about my Opal and does natural opal reacts that way. Thank you!
