Black Opal or Dark Opal? Your guess is as good as ours. We picked up this Nobby on our last trip out to Lightning Ridge. It came from a field where a patch of black opal was recently found, so our...
Let’s have a chat about Pea Nobby’s and different types of rough opal. Rough Opal There are two types of rough opal — Seam Opal and Nobby Opal. Seam Opal is plate form and Grawin is exclusively ...
We have heard your cries of ‘when are we going to see a piece of Coober Pedy opal being cut?’ and… ‘Coober Pedy opal is awesome too you know!’. So we’ve listened and decided to give the people what...
Wyoming Field Nobby is well known for looking a little average on the outside yet generally producing something great on the inside. This nobby is no exception with its hazy blue top and black potc...
This is a frontrunner for one of the best crystal opals I have ever seen and I have seen some exceptional opals. But I knew with a bit of skill and precision, I could rid the back of sand and unvei...
This week we’re working with a seamingly good opal from Seam Country — the Grawin Fields (see what we did there?). We can see even as a piece of rough, that this has some beautifully bright reds ru...
This particular Wyoming Nobby from Lightning Ridge is showing a lot of potential. The color looks vibrant and the color bar seems to be a decent size— but you never know what is lurking below the w...
Happy Hal-opal-ween BOD lovers, do we have a (trick or) treat in store for you? Tune in as we uncover an exceptionally spooky nobby opal from Lightning Ridge. You came for the opal cutting but you’...
Carving opal requires patience, a lot of patience, like, soooooo much patience! But, we love doing it right? Taking a Dremel to an opal feels somewhat more organic and makes us feel a little more i...