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About us you can fine opal jewelry online at Graham Black Opal jewelry designer specialing in Australian opal gemstones. Wholesale prices direct from our Australian opal mine, but it is the beauty of this gem that makes it appreciate, and there never is two opals the same .
We are also in Bangkok and Chiangmai Thailand opal jewelry courses. Opal jewelry and stones for sale in Bangkok . Graham Black Opal Web designer Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand, WordPress development.
Wholesale prices direct from our Australian opal mine, Free of charge when purchasing stones over $487 Custom jewelry design made free for you.
Graham Black Opal Web designer Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand, WordPress development. Please e-mail regarding courses and training to become your own Webmaster.
Graham Black Opal jewelry designer specialing in opal gemstones Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand opal jewelry courses.
Jan head coach of world champion Australian women's basketball team has a opal gemstone from Graham Black opal, and will remain Jan preferred lucky jewelry to wear with pride . Jan has carried and worn a piece of opal jewelry during all the major campaigns whilst coaching the Australian Basketball team, throughout the world Championships of 2002, the Athens Olympics of 2004, the 2006 World Opals australian basketball Jan head coach jewelry design is of the Southern Cross, the flag of Australian as the Southern Cross star’s on it . The jewelry set with five clear white diamonds and is set in 18 carat gold that surrounds the Australian opal . lucky Australian opal stone and the America, known to have the best men and women's basketball team the America unbeatable's by a imperial mile but Jan Stirling beat the invincible USA team in the World Cup and was also runner-up silver medal in the Olympics, the head coach lucky charm is from the mining township of lightning Ridge Australia and from the only heritage leased mining lease opal mine in the world . This town is recognised as the capital of the black opal industry .
jewelry care stones get dislodged from their jewelry settings, gold gets scratched and stones get chipped in these conditions diamonds and opals-crystals should be treated the same emerald, garnets, pearls, ruby's, jade sapphires, spindle, topaz , tourmaline, crystals gemstones .
Opal care mounted with gemstones such as diamond, ruby emerald, tanzanite or turquoise, you should never wear any jewelry-rings-ear rings in water washing up or like the beach and rough conditions like sports where jewelry may get knocked by hard objects .
Jewelry care no special treatment for black-crystals-white-opals care as with all jewelry and stones, grime when wearing can be cleaned wiped off with a clean wet tissue cloth.
Opals silica chemically like quartz, containing water . Precious stones consists of small silica spheres, of uniform size regular pattern. Gem color stones is caused by the regular shape silica spheres diffracting white light breaking it up into colors of spectrum.
The play of color depends on the angle of incidence of the white light changing or disappear when the gem is turn. The size and spacing of the spheres also controls the color range of opal. In showing blue reds lightning the spheres are larger than those showing green violet flashes. Common silica spheres may be absent or very small to make color.
The first British and European prospectors pioneers explores that heard about the rare multicolor that sparkled dazzling red fire from rocks and stones, travelled to these locations and started the first opal mining fields. Hard men it was all blood sweat and tears in the semi-arid deserts no fresh water most of the year, stinking hot summers and cold winters, all backbreaking work by hand. No machinery, candle lighting shovels and picks and a hand held windless to wind up a bucket of clay from the bottom of the shaft. A cable was connected to the bucket back to the handheld windless that have to be rotated 360° many times by manpower to allow the bucket to come to the surface under intense heat.
Australia is the main source of opals,stone hardness 6.5 to 5.5, 80% to 95% of all opals come from the remote semi deserts. The gemstone are in Indonesia ,Honduras, Czechoslovakia, Peru,Mexico, Brazil, USA . Since the start of the new millennium South Australian crystal and white has not been producing a lot. And since the new corcoran rush 1990s there has not been a lot of black stones also being produced and in the recent years around 2007 the country of Ethiopia has produced the greatest quantity of crystal that is on the market today,about 20% in 2014.
Development of the electron microscope work it out. Precious are Australian black opals made up of little uniform spheres of transparent silica fit together in orderly three dimensional frame, sitting in a bath of silica . It is the orderliness of the spheres that make precious from and common Ethiopia stones . Light passes through the transparent spheres in a direct line, but when it hits the bath of silica, it is bent and deflected at different angles producing a colors effect.
First Australian's have been dated back to around 40,000 years, prior the first European arrival in Australia in 1770, the many aboriginal indigenous tribes are very tall very dark skin people that hunted naked, their theory ,Dreamtime Legend . Numerous legends and tales surround this colorful gemstone, which can be traced back in its origins to a time,ancient lost time of the first Australian. Their legends God came down to Australian on a rainbow, to bring peace to all the indigenous tribes, where God touched the ground, the opal became alive and all the colors of the rainbow spectrum,iridescent multicolors,light green-dark green of jade and the dark blue-light blue of sapphires,red color spindle gemstone, topaz beautiful blue , the pink color of tourmaline, opal crystals colors as clear as diamonds and can have all these colors yellow, and the exotic black opal,green colors like emerald, red garnets, white pearls,dark pigeon red ruby's,superlative brilliance multicolors fire sparkling rainbow, the dreamtime legend it was the birth of gemstones.
About us you can fine opal jewelry online at Graham Black Opal jewelry designer specialing in Australian opal gemstones. Wholesale prices direct from our Australian opal mine, but it is the beauty of this gem that makes it appreciate, and there never is two opals the same .
We are also in Bangkok and Chiangmai Thailand opal jewelry courses. Opal jewelry and stones for sale in Bangkok . Graham Black Opal Web designer Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand, WordPress development.
Wholesale prices direct from our Australian opal mine, Free of charge when purchasing stones over $487 Custom jewelry design made free for you.
Graham Black Opal Web designer Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand, WordPress development. Please e-mail regarding courses and training to become your own Webmaster.
Graham Black Opal jewelry designer specialing in opal gemstones Bangkok Chiangmai Thailand opal jewelry courses.
jewelry care stones get dislodged from their jewelry settings, gold gets scratched and stones get chipped in these conditions diamonds and opals-crystals should be treated the same emerald, garnets, pearls, ruby's, jade sapphires, spindle, topaz , tourmaline, crystals gemstones .
Opal care mounted with gemstones such as diamond, ruby emerald, tanzanite or turquoise, you should never wear any jewelry-rings-ear rings in water washing up or like the beach and rough conditions like sports where jewelry may get knocked by hard objects .
Jewelry care no special treatment for black-crystals-white-opals care as with all jewelry and stones, grime when wearing can be cleaned wiped off with a clean wet tissue cloth.
Opals silica chemically like quartz, containing water . Precious stones consists of small silica spheres, of uniform size regular pattern. Gem color stones is caused by the regular shape silica spheres diffracting white light breaking it up into colors of spectrum.
The play of color depends on the angle of incidence of the white light changing or disappear when the gem is turn. The size and spacing of the spheres also controls the color range of opal. In showing blue reds lightning the spheres are larger than those showing green violet flashes. Common silica spheres may be absent or very small to make color.
The first British and European prospectors pioneers explores that heard about the rare multicolor that sparkled dazzling red fire from rocks and stones, travelled to these locations and started the first opal mining fields. Hard men it was all blood sweat and tears in the semi-arid deserts no fresh water most of the year, stinking hot summers and cold winters, all backbreaking work by hand. No machinery, candle lighting shovels and picks and a hand held windless to wind up a bucket of clay from the bottom of the shaft. A cable was connected to the bucket back to the handheld windless that have to be rotated 360° many times by manpower to allow the bucket to come to the surface under intense heat.
Australia is the main source of opals,stone hardness 6.5 to 5.5, 80% to 95% of all opals come from the remote semi deserts. The gemstone are in Indonesia ,Honduras, Czechoslovakia, Peru,Mexico, Brazil, USA . Since the start of the new millennium South Australian crystal and white has not been producing a lot. And since the new corcoran rush 1990s there has not been a lot of black stones also being produced and in the recent years around 2007 the country of Ethiopia has produced the greatest quantity of crystal that is on the market today,about 20% in 2014.
Development of the electron microscope work it out. Precious are Australian black opals made up of little uniform spheres of transparent silica fit together in orderly three dimensional frame, sitting in a bath of silica . It is the orderliness of the spheres that make precious from and common Ethiopia stones . Light passes through the transparent spheres in a direct line, but when it hits the bath of silica, it is bent and deflected at different angles producing a colors effect.
First Australian's have been dated back to around 40,000 years, prior the first European arrival in Australia in 1770, the many aboriginal indigenous tribes are very tall very dark skin people that hunted naked, their theory ,Dreamtime Legend . Numerous legends and tales surround this colorful gemstone, which can be traced back in its origins to a time,ancient lost time of the first Australian. Their legends God came down to Australian on a rainbow, to bring peace to all the indigenous tribes, where God touched the ground, the opal became alive and all the colors of the rainbow spectrum,iridescent multicolors,light green-dark green of jade and the dark blue-light blue of sapphires,red color spindle gemstone, topaz beautiful blue , the pink color of tourmaline, opal crystals colors as clear as diamonds and can have all these colors yellow, and the exotic black opal,green colors like emerald, red garnets, white pearls,dark pigeon red ruby's,superlative brilliance multicolors fire sparkling rainbow, the dreamtime legend it was the birth of gemstones.
