Opal Pendants UK
Opal Pendants UK Opal pendants UK are more available now than they used to be. There was a time when England knew very little if anything about opal, even though the Romans, a thousand years before knew this fabulous stone and treasured it as a part of what they considered a national treasure. Australian opal […]
Black Opal
Black Opal What Color is Black Opal? a pretty simple question you would say. Requiring an obvious answer, ‘BLACK OPAL IS OBVIOUSLY BLACK’ Well if you said that, you would be wrong. Such a confusing answer begs a good explanation and we intend to give it to you in this article. First though, let’s take a […]
Earring
Earring What is an ‘earring?’ Pretty obvious don’t you think? An earring is a ring you either attach or put through your ear. Sounds simple, but not really. Here is a little history about the subject and some pics of earrings worn by ancient people. As you can see, not too much has changed. You […]
Jewelers
Jewelers Good Jewelers are not always easy to find Most people don’t realize but there are several specialized areas within the jewelry manufacturing process that are sometimes not known by all jewelers. In some cases, you will find that a jeweler can create a nice jewellery piece but you will find out that he often […]
Boulder Opal Rings
Boulder Opal Rings The Boulder Opal Rings in the pictures below are examples of what is available from time to time at the Opalmine site. You can take a look in the opal shop to see what is available and leave a message on the blog below if you want to know how to order […]
Australian Opal Jewelry
Australian Opal Jewelry Australian Opal Jewelry details: In the past decade or so, the Australian government has seen fit to create a national gemstone and even though many other gemstones are found in this large continent, most of them are also found extensively in other countries. Not so with opal. Even though of course there […]
Jewelers and Gold Jewelry
Jewelers and Gold Jewelry Jewelers and Gold Jewelry..Never did the archaeologists expect to find amazing evidence of ancient jewelers and gold jewelry in the ruins of this ancient city. The anticipation was building. In the 1920’s Leonard Woolley had been given an assignment from the Pennsylvania Museum to do a thorough investigation of the newly […]
Opal Mines of Australia
Opal Mines of Australia Opal mines of Australia were discovered back in the mid-nineteenth century. Often they were discovered by chance while various outback men were going about duties far removed from the idea of looking for precious gems, in this case, opal. Since this article was written, Mike cleaned out this hole but in […]
Koroit Opal Mine
Koroit Opal Mine Koroit Opal Mine Another amazing opal spot in the Yowah region I visited Koroit opal mine back in 1968. It was on a property called Boobora station. What attracted me most of all as we rattled along the old corrugated road between Cunnamulla and Charleville, western Queensland was the beautiful streams of […]
Coober Pedy Opal Fields
Coober Pedy Opal Fields Coober Pedy Opal fields, Australia’s Opal Capital Details about when Coober Pedy opal fields were discovered and the meaning of the name is found in another post on this site entitled, ‘Opal Mines of Australia,’ so this article will focus more on the Coober Pedy Opal fields themselves, and the status […]