Description

Eye catching black boulder opal ring

Superbe bague en opale boulder noire en forme de poire sertie dans un style lunette en or jaune 18 carats. Stones of this quality are getting rarer since the black opal fields at Lightning ridge are not producing like they did. This is an expensive ring for someone who can afford it.

Opal Ring Description:

Poire ou goutte shape ring with swirl featured ring design. La pierre n'est pas votre opale de forme ovale normale mais est en fait une forme de goutte ou de poire et est placée sur le côté sur le doigt, ce qui lui donne une apparence unique.

The metal is 18k yellow gold and there are no additional stones to take away from the main feature which is opal.

Just to remind you in case you have not read about it on this site, il s'agit d'une opale boulder des champs d'opale de l'ouest du Queensland et est également classée comme une opale noire car elle se trouve dans la nature avec un support en ironstone brun et c'est ce support qui donne à l'opale son aspect vert-bleu profond dramatique.

Qu'est-ce qu'un noir "’ ou «sombre’ ou «cristal’ opale ou Boulder Opal? Cliquez sur ici pour savoir.

Boulder Opal descriptif:

Winton is at the northern end of the famous boulder opal fields in Western Queensland. Ces pierres qui étaient probablement les opales premiers Noirs vivant en Australie au milieu du 19e siècle.

They are similar to the Lightning Ridge Black opal except that they have dark brown ironstone back instead of black potch.

Such colors and patterns are typical of boulder opal which comes from a strip of the outback of Western Queensland Australia between Cunnamulla with its opal fields of Yowah and Koroit up through Quilpie to Winton in the north.

The town of Winton boasts a museum recording some amazing finds of among other things dinosaurs and other ancient artifacts. Winton along with Longreach to the south has a history of nearly two hundred years of brave outback pioneers who wandered the bush both in search of minerals and caring for cattle and crops.

Winton is where Australia’s airline industry had its birth and it’s also the place along with others who gave birth to the opal industry.

Opale, arguable the most unique of all gemstones is found in this area inside large ironstone boulders and has to be released from mother nature with the help of large machinery and long with diamond blades and lapidary wheels.

The process is someone of a muddy experience but the resultant gemstones are not only amazing in color but also in pattern and shape.