There are many categories of opal when it comes to grading them out.Opals of all different colors are and have different values depending on the color it displays.You can categorize opals by using ...
Welcome back to Black Opal Direct! This week I want to take you to the heart of the opal country. To see where the best opal ever came from. As some of you may know the Cooceran opal field has bee...
White opal is a more common opal heavily marketed in the early days of opal trading, which is what most think about when they think of opal.White opal has a very light body tone to it giving the op...
Boulder opal is the most organic type of gemstone. With boulder opal fields stretching right across the ancient inland sea, Queensland boulder opal has a lot of possibilities and prospecting for bo...
Watch me explaining body tone chart and the brightness scale. This is only a guide to show you how the scales work.
Solid black opal is found mainly in Lightning Ridge in Australia. Black opal is a dark-bodied or a dark tint throughout the opal, making the color in the opal bright and beautiful. Solid black opal...
Australian Opal inlay is the term for opal that has been inset into precious metal. The gem is polished at the same time as the metal, and the opal flattened to the same height as the precious meta...
Australian Black Opal comes from Lightning Ridge in the outback of New South Wales, Australia. Commercially it would produce over 95% of the World’s black opal in terms of quantity and quality. Ot...
How to cut a Nobby..polishing of rough opal made to look easy…Watch master cutter Justin from Black Opal Direct polish a piece of rough ‘Nobby’ with a flat colour bar into an oval cabochon. In this...