Natural opal is the term used for opal that has naturally formed in the ground in areas where silica is in high concentration through the natural fissures and cavities that have been formed undergr...
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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...
Matrix opal is a treated opal that comes from in Australia. It is defined as opal in host rock. The main field that produces this matrix opal is Andamooka in South Australia. The field was discover...
There are many types of rough opal from many parts of the world. Rough opal comes in many forms, shapes and sizes. In Ethiopia, opal comes in a nobby-like form that is usually brownish in tint. The...
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...
What type of opal cutting machines can I use?There are many cutting machines and ways to cut and polish opal. Finding the opal-cutting machine to suit you is the question that most people have on t...
