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Posted by opals on Mar 15, 2019 in National symbols Australia, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry. |

Australian Symbols Opal Official Australian Gem . Australian official national symbols there are many like the flag and green and gold official colours and opal gemstones official Australian national gemstone. Australian symbols opals the most amazing of all the different types of Australian opals an a good lucky charm, and the best quality was discovered in an outback town not far from the border of Queensland and New South Wales, discovered out of town at the 3-mile now official government Heritage area and the only prospector claim holder today is graham that was the last prospector to undertake mining operations in this area. Now his claim has been officially recognised by the government and Heritage listed, because the most beautiful opals an Australian symbols was discovered at this location 3 mile. Also other 3 mile claims in this area are very famous like the famous claim where they found the Guinness book of records named the Hayleys comet, unfortunately the claim holder along with all of the claim guys are now no longer with us, in particular the famous Barkley brothers Terry and Lance. Australian Symbols Opals Lucky Charm. In www2 many Australian’s the military carried there lucky charm an opal gemstone an Australian symbol, the Australian diggers a term for the Army military was the first men to defeat and stop the advance of the Emperors Royal Japanese military. Up to this stage the Japanese Emperors Royal military had beaten the Americans in all 3 battles, Pearl Harbor the first and the last the Philippines a colony of the USA. The Japanese was controlling most of China the French were driven out of Indochina, nearly all the countries in Southeast Asia surrendered to the Japanese. The Dutch defeated in Indonesia the English had been defeated in what was called in them days nearly 75 years ago Burma, along with the fall of the English colony Singapore, so maybe the Australian symbols the opal was a good omen lol . These Australian men truly amazing saved Australia and after this battle that was at the biggest island in the world next to Australia named Papa New Guinea, the Australian diggers teamed up with the Americans and along with the English and the Commonwealth countries, they save the world from the German European Nazis allies of the Japanese military, this was the end to a very tragic time during www2. Australian Symbols Opal. Opal ring wow gemstones from Australia they are the best opals by far particularly the multicolour black opal group from the area in Australia known as Lightning Ridge. A opal ring with opals from this region has the most brightest an amazing colours so vibrant so strong so amazing and unique. Every opal has individual markings and colours and patterns and shapes and sizes, unlike diamonds and sapphires and most of the precious gemstones, millions and millions...

Posted by opals on Feb 11, 2019 in about opals, opal, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry., opals |

Opal ? Opal Information From Graham Specialist In The Industry. Opal? what are opals there gemstones in rings and jewellery is where you will see opals, this information is by the only producer Graham with the only Heritage listed opal mine in Australia. Opals cater’s for all budgets semiprecious too precious, the word opal in dictionary’s will clearly explain opal is a gemstone, but today everything has changed like privacy and the word opal can come up on a search referring to many thing’s like an Australian card, and a name of a person. But all dictionary’s will define opal as consisting of many colour’s and are all unique individual stoned with so many different patterns and different strengths regarding play of colour and body tones, from clear crystal with colours with in the crystal an black body tone’s that has the strongest colour’s that can have electrifying colours. So many bodytone white body toned and the country of Australia produces the best quality opals and the vast amount of the world’s deposit. Opal ? Graham Has The Only Official Government Heritage Listed Opal Mine On Google Map In Australia . Over the last 10 years there was a very unusual discovery of opal gemstone found in Africa the country of Ethiopia, a much lower grade in general and mostly crystal semi transparent crystal with colours. Opal can change and reflect different colour’s from different angles when rotating the opal in your hand. The rarest of all the high quality is a multicolour predominantly red in the black opal group that has to be no less then either N1 or N2 classification black, the top-quality black gemstone’s are the most expensive and would have to have a very symmetrical shape cut with a very high dome cabochon and a fabulous pattern, and excellent play of colour with fabulous pattern like Harlequin pattern or a pictures stone something very unusual, plus no flaws specially in the viewing front of the gemstone, it must have a nice thick strong back and from every angle the play of colour must be dazzling to the eye when turning a gem quality stone, also the gem must be not only very bright around light’s but also good in darker areas with no sun or light. Opal Guinness book of world records gemstone video at Wikipedia or hear at YouTube video. But as most budgets cannot afford such opal rings or jewellery but you love such a gemstone, then never worry about your budget because there is one of these gemstones for every budget. You could pick up a stone for $50 or less but handmade handcrafted custom Goldsmith work not cheap, so it’s best to look for mass-produce rings and jewellery, you should be able to find jewellery for hundred dollars or less, obviously nothing spectacular like I had described above regarding gem quality...

Posted by opals on Dec 30, 2018 in opal ring | 0 comments

Opal ring jewellery with all natural opals from Australia. Opals from the last working Heritage opal site in the world.

Posted by opals on Nov 28, 2018 in about opals, opal, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry. |

Opal Information All You Need To Know About Opal In 2019 HAPPY NEW 2019 . Opal ring and opal jewellery information site with information about pricing opal gemstones, and information on how you should take care of your opal ring jewellery, also lots of good free information about the opal industry in Australia and the new opal discovery in Africa in the country of Ethiopia. Opal information free about the history of the opal industry and the formation of opal gemstones, you can find out where the different locations deposits of opal gemstones can be found. This free site does not ask for any favours in return you can find out about opal mining procedures, from underground mining by shaft to the very expensive open cut opal mining procedures, mostly undertaking in the state of Queensland where some people call it matrix opals and others call it boulder opals. Opal Gemstones. This opal site does not collect anything about you and on detail information are never asked, nothing is transferred we just love opals and like to give free information, we have been involved in the industry over 40 years from underground opal mining and open cut mining, orientation we cut and polishing opals straight from our mine’s in Australia. We’re also goldsmiths and designers of opal rings and opal jewellery and we have travelled to different international gem and jewellery shows reviewing and talking to many opal merchants, and by far America at Tucson has the best display of opal gemstones in the world. Lots more information about opal ring jewellery hear at www.grahamblackopal.com/handmade-opal-ring. Opal homepage hear at www.grahamblackopal.com opal specialist and the only Australian producer, with a Heritage listed opal mine claim holder still working and still design’s opal ring jewellery Opal Gemstones. The opal town and the only place you will find the best quality black opal has a great opal Expo on every year at Lightning Ridge where you will find opal jewellery displays also, and a yearly competition for the best types of opal jewellery. Opal Jewellery categories in silver another category for gold opal jewellery, many different awards truly a must see. And in the future at Lightning Ridge in the state of NSW in the far north western region near the State border of Queensland will be built a two story, one above ground one underground official Government Museum named the Australian Opal Centre. Opal Gemstones Wow New Opal museum. Wow there will be so much informations palaeontologist with opal fossil remains of dinosaur fossilised shells with opal colours fused . The Australian opal Centre website www.australianopalcentre.com is being built right next door to the biggest black opal open cut mine, and the most famous and best quality opal discovery right next door to the driveway that goes down to the open cut mine’s now Heritage listed. Graham that gives all...

Posted by opals on Sep 7, 2018 in Opal ring, Articles Jewelry. |

Ring Opal Gold jewellery. Ring opal gold jewellery and gemstones are a great investment as you can walk into any gold shop in China and Asia and can exchange gold for money hard currency’s, and as China is the second largest economy and gold is better than cash or assets, in the second biggest economy in the world that has a great future, so gold will always stay strong and be a good stable investment. All south east Asian country gold is king and also in Japan the third biggest economy and a international powerhouse, Japanese investing in gold and India ever-growing and gold bars and jewellery is what everybody wants these days not US dollars, about information on opal rings about opal rings and jewellery. Ring Opal Gold jewellery. Graham’s opals are good quality gemstones and opals have always been an investment assets and only going up like gold, so the combination of the two in one gold design jewellery a excellent investment. The opals here are all natural Australian guaranteed 100% with certificates, from the only official government Heritage listed opal location in the country of Australia, you can purchase direct and save a lot by cutting out the middle merchants people and retail shops. All jewellery here is handmade and for the same items handcrafted that you can see here, you will pay much more money in European Union and North America Japan Singapore in Australia and all the first world safe country, would cost you about 75% more. Most Australian opals in developing countries are most likely not from Australia, very dicey most likely cheaper but synthetic fake copies maybe. Ring Opal Gold jewellery. In fact since 9/11 in New York America gold went up every year for about 10 years, and as the US dollar went down most years after this disaster, and international currency along with European currency and British pound plus Japanese Yen have been going down for years, but gold jewellery only going up in value as a investment so don’t miss out. Ring Opal Gold. Other precious items including gemstones like Australian opals should be on the shopping list also, and here guarantee in writing money back if ever the opal of graham’s jewellery is not a natural Australian opal, no questions asked just returned in the same condition with your internationally excepted opal lab testing certificate stating otherwise. Graham rings with opals in gold and silver jewellery all with certificates 100% correct and you will never have to return your investment, as your investment will be safe solid unlike bitcoins lose your password to your bitcoins cyber wallet and you lose your investment. Gold just lock it in your local bank safety deposit box and it’s safe, gold does not perish when wet when outdoors it does not rust like a classic car that needs expensive...

Posted by opals on Aug 25, 2018 in Opal ring, Articles Jewelry. |

Ring Opal Gem & Gemstone. Ring opal gem image and the best opal gemstones and jewelry are always Australian opals, here graham and the jeweler’s and goldsmiths only handcraft rings and pendants with Australian opals, direct from his official government Heritage mine at much better prices then you will see here in the certificate and the opal ring image memo above. Hay guys commercial jewelry you maybe never see a amazing Australian opal set into the design. Setting gemstones into jewelry is a special skill and there are not a lot of people in the industry with this skill. When outsourcing a custom made opal ring the jeweler first of all starts off with the design. Make sketch and working with someone that understands, designers artistic are the best and can design and sketch so the first step simply make a drawing on a soft copy paper, information on opal rings about opal ring and jewellery. Ring Opal Gemstone. Make model the next step the goldsmith will make a temporary wax model of your design because it is a one-off design, goldsmith will carve in special jeweler’s wax so to do this correctly the finish ring will only be as good as this step, hay wax scale will shrink slightly so make wax model slightly larger. Then comes the rubber mold the wax model is encased in plaster, and the wax burned away with very hot temperature, and now there is only the outline empty space of what will be the final opal ring or opal jewelry, and this will be filled with the clients particular requirements maybe 18 ^ gold 9 carat gold or solid silver whatever percentage of silver, this often depends on the client budget. Opal Ring With Australian Gem Opal. The next step will be polishing the opal ring to a good standard, with unique designs we never use wax model again but there is a rubber mold now so any number of these designs can be created exactly the same, but with opals gemstones they are all unique so the feature appearance will always be different. The final jewelry is checked to make sure that no problems with the casting process why buffering by hand on a polishing wheel. Quality check for any signs of problems in the casting, like voids a problem that will allow weakness in the gold or silver opal ring structure. The ring cast or jewelry cast finally if needed will have findings solder or welded to the item that is nearly finished, completed the jewelry design this now ready have any final polishing buffering, and send it off to the opal gemstone setter. Opal ring. Ring is finished but the opal is not set and opal setters are the most skilled of all the craftsmen like diamond and ruby’s setters. The biggest concerns must concentration at all times...

Posted by opals on Jul 14, 2018 in opal ring, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry. |

Ring with opal. Ring opal beautiful and the gemstone was first found and discovered in Lightning Ridge 1880s, there is a story that Mr Charlie Nettleton was the first guy to sink the first opal shaft in1903. By about 1909 1910 from other mining feels in this state and other states like South Australian the local population rose to 1,000, the miners expanded there operations out of town about 10 km to the famous 3 mile now Government Heritage listed and then further on to 4 mile, 1920 the opal mining fields slowed right up little production was coming out of town and the surrounding areas. About opal rings and opal jewellery. Prior 1958 the English and Germans where the big buyers of opal gemstones and later on the scene the Americans buyers purchase Australian opals. But 1958 demand for this gemstone and mechanisation mining machinery, along with the price of black opal underground mining was quite active in and around lightning Ridge, the famous claim named Scotts at 3 mile was open cut by a guy simply named big bill and mining around 1970s. Japanese economy was booming and Japanese buyers were the biggest buyers of this gem from about 1979 to about 1995, Opal cut mining took off in a bigger way and the 3 mile became the biggest black opal pit in the history of this industry and now is Heritage listed and a State Museum the capital Sydney is being built next door to Graham Black 3 mile Heritage mine. Ring with opal. The Lightning Ridge Brothers that found the Guinness book of record black opal gave me this video they were working with me on my mine just before & not long after they passed away. I still have the State Heritage Listed opal mine in the same area where the brothers discovered the largest uncut Black opal in modern times at www.grahamblackopal.com. Japan economy started slowing up and so did the Japanese buyers, since this time on the Americans where the biggest buyers but after the prime crisis in the USA and the collapse of there dollar Americans have slowed up. 1990s the best source of opals were discovered since the original Lightning Ridge mines, about 20 minutes west and the other side of the Corcoran Lake. This deposit put the whole industry and area back on the International gemstone map, but since then the industry has had its own problems with government regulations tightening up workplace and safety restrictions, along with very strong environmental regulations and International fuel prices going through the roof. The Russians showed a lot of interest in the best quality deposits of opals known in the world, and that naturally only comes from Australia. About 2006 Russians were traveling for the first time since the collapse of the commonest System in their country, but since the economic...

Posted by opals on Jul 1, 2018 in about opals, opal good luck, opal ring |

Opals Good Luck Charms Jewellery? Opals good luck ? yes as most opal comes from the most lucky of all countries Australia and is officially recognised by the Government as a official gemstone, so this is the greatest of lucky charms, as Australia was involved in defending the world and defeated the Imperial Japanese Emperors invasion of Asia www2 allies of the Germans and Italians, and many Australians had with them opals good luck Charms. Australians in www2 saved the French from the Nazis and defeating the Germans in www1 in Belgium the capital of the European Union, also in www1 the Muslim Country of Turkey that was allies of the Nazis in Europe the Australians landed on their shores. Australians defended Democratic South Korean against the dictators of North Korea in the cold war again many Australians had with them opals good luck Charms. Many countries believe opals are a very good luck jewellery, China and many countries in European Union USA Japan wealthy Middle Eastern countries Arab emirates South Korea Singapore and the British also people in democratic Hong Kong believe jewellery opals good luck charms. But there are many reasons why people have opal jewellery and opal rings, the main reason is their beauty and unique individual patterns and play of different types of colours. Every stone it’s unique and can take up to 100 million years for evolution to form beautiful multicolour predominately red colour stones, you will never see 2 of these types opals ever, unlike diamond and ruby or sapphire’s millions all the same priced because identical listed as A grade with identical colours or B grade identical colours floors all cut shaped the same, but hey guys handcrafted artistic designed opal ring wow amazing can be the most beautiful of all jewellery. Opals Good Luck Charms Jewellery? Some of the most beautiful designs of all opal rings are simply surrounded with little very affordable small diamonds where the unique patterns and colours of the opal gemstone is the much larger centre master piece in the jewellery...

Posted by opals on Jun 7, 2018 in opal, opal ring |

Opal Ring Gemstones. Opal ring gemstones hey guys let your friends and people know where to fine the best prices for handmade opal rings, and the best quality Australian opals that are fully guaranteed natural gemstones. Videos about opal ring, wedding opal ring, engagement opal ring at Youtube Channel. Opal ring gemstones articles on graham’s website on the subject of the Australian industry and articles on the history, articles about how to clean opal rings jewelry many articles on this website. Information articles about cutting and polishing Australian gemstones, great articles on famous stones with photographs videos showing location of the biggest open cut black opal mine in the industry. Articles on how to hand make jewelry along with outbound links to youtube videos with inbound links to similar post on custom made jewelry handcrafted. On this website there is over 200 different articles on different subjects about Australian types of stones and all types of jewelry all unique handmade designs. Graham’s online site with every thing you need to know because these days, like unfortunately most of the the jewelry industry is mass-produced in countries like India or China, third world countries with lots of corruption and very little quality control, integrity is always a big issue in business. So graham always recommend choosing handcrafted custom-made rings from first world countries, as your country goldsmiths are like goldsmith in his country with official Government checks and balances and providing good legal system for customers. But the difference here you are going directly to graham’s Australian mine and saving a lot by cutting out the middleman that travels back and forward from Australia to your country supplying goldsmith with this gemstone. For people that would prefer more Information on this topic on opal ring gemstones please go to opal ring opal jewellery. here we provide free information and provide opals also from the Only official Government Heritage opal mine in Australia. Natural opal rings jewelry custom-hand made with natural opals only on this site, professionals goldsmith all Graham Master Jeweler with over 40 years jewelry designs across the globe. As graham provides a certificate to verify all claims written guarantee stating that the gemstone is natural and from Australian with no treatment of any kind, and if found otherwise full cost will be returned no questions asked, if you can find evidence.   From the best biggest opal gemstone open cut mine and the finest quality gem ever discovered. You can return the opal jewelry within 60 day if the opal proves not to be a genuine solid Australian gemstone containing no treatments or enhancements. 30 days if opal rings do not come close to matching the description seen on the site. All Jewelry and gemstones are at wholesale prices direct from the opal miner.  Graham investment recommendations for 2018 gold opal ring with very good commercial grade and gem quality...

Posted by opals on Jun 6, 2018 in opal, opal ring |

Opal formed made of ? What is comment Opal? Opal formed different types of stones like commercial grade that is more common then gem quality A grade precious opal, gem a term for the best that usually have strong colours with amazing visual patterns resembling objects, for example butterfly pattern or Chinese characters writing pattern also the amazing harlequin pattern and displays a unique flashes and play of colour, and one of the most sought-after patterns peacock harlequin. Opal formed stones of hydrated silica and Science has determined specific gravity 1.98 – 2.20 with refractive Index 1.44 – 1.46 but the hardness varies up to about 6.5. The best quality opal formed by far comes from the capital of the State of NSW Australia, the most amazing naturally gemstone but expensive only discovered around the town of Lightning Ridge. But only a small percentage of this black opal group of opals discovered will make the grade N1 – N2, this is the most amazing bodytone recognise worldwide as the best quality grade opal. Also the most stable opal by far under all climatic conditions unlike Ethiopian opal very porous, and bolder stones can have amazing colour but is nowhere as stable as black opal with good amazing colours, and of course the patterns are the best by far of all the opals including Crystal opal white semi black and bolder opal. These types of opal all have floors that would naturally be there, but under extreme conditions very hot conditions or the opposite very cold conditions problems will occur, often just very fine faults that you cannot see with the naked eye, can expand and fracture overtime plus colours can sometimes not stable like black opal, and gray colour amongst the other colours can often expand with time and ageing, where 100% good quality very dense heavy black opals you’re never have this problem. Opal formed millions of years ago made of silicon, most opal come from Australia. Today’s science with the use of electron microscopy Scientists say the size of the spheres determines all colours, smallest ultraviolet but amazing things happen when the spheres increases to about 135 nm then they make violet colours, as the opal spears get bigger light blue colour appears and the size increase the spears generate dark blue colours and it goes on with every increase, then making green and then orange types of colours and over 240 nm the most rarest colour red, and when red is represented with multi-colours the most amazing and expensive of all gems. But bottom line your choice the most important and this is truly up to the eye of the beholder what bodytone each person prefers along with their favourite arrange of colours. Video is about how to make a opal ring. Back to the formation of opals Scientific theory small changes...