This week has been tough for many of our customers as they deal with Hurricane Sandy and the aftermath.We are thinking of you all and pray that you and your families are okay. The image above repre...
When talking about our history in the opal business, talk invariably goes to another family with an even longer opal association. E. Gregory Sherman was started by Ernie Sherman in 1896 when he fir...
Harold Hodge' Opal Teeth. Source: Australian Opal CentreThere are some amazing stories out there and it seems the opal world has more than it’s fair share. The most jaw dropping (pardon the pun) i...
The Maze @ Nettleton’s LookoutWell, I’ve clocked up a few miles in the past week with a trip to Lightning Ridge. Being winter, the weather was gorgeous with sunny warm days but beware when the sun...
The Lightning Ridge gem show went off without a hitch, the sun was bright but cold at night, with many people coming from all over. The all-around feeling that the gem show had was a nice easy goin...
Lightning Ridge is a tiny opal-mining town about 70 kilometres south of the Queensland border in New South Wales and 700 kilometres north-west of Sydney. The city is situated on the edge of an anci...