Opal Gemstone Jewelry Show.

Opal Gemstone Jewelry Show.

Posted by on Jan 7, 2014 in `Australian opal rings American, about opals, Australian opal jewelry, Australian opal ring, Bangkok Australian opal diamond jewellery, buy sell custom opal rings, Care for opal jewelry, Cutting opals, History of black opals, Lightning Ridge opal miners, Opal certificates, Opal mining, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry., Polished opals, selling opal jewelry, Tucson Gem Show, Wholesale opals |

Opal gemstone jewelry show Tucson gem show and mineral & Bangkok gems Jewelry fair. Opal gemstone jewelry show Graham offer clients free of charge when purchasing stones in category over $191 dollars, “Free our jewelers custom hand make 1 professional goldsmith design jewelry” To suit the stone purchased. Clients personal designs excepted also we include free insurance and postage to your home. Gem Jewelry show for the trade have gemstones jewelry, Internationally events in Paris and opals at the Japan fair Tokyo and Japanese people love jewelry .    Italy jewelry trade show have some lovely  jewelry,    Australia where opals are the national gemstone the JAA Jewelry fair Sydney Australia you will find this gemstone also at wwwgrahamblackopal.com . Fabulous black stones from lightning Ridge Australia the capital of the black Opal industry.    The mother land of Australia “England at the Jewelry London jewelry   exhibitions like watch and Jewelry. Dubai have a beautiful display also.  Hong Kong Jewelry exhibition, and Europe Germany gems Jewelry fairs. Most of the international opal gemstone jewelry show trade exhibitions, should at least have some solid cut opals on display. Australian sculptures and carvings are becoming more prevalent at gem and mineral shows internationally. Opal Rings Australian Opal Rings . Opal gemstone jewelry show you can often purchase gemstone rough . Cutting and polishing is an art a good cutter can greatly increase the value of opals. A cabochon allows more surface area on opal stone.      And if you are having any difficulties in pricing an opal at the Bangkok gems and Jewelry fair then please do not hesitate to contact us at the fair, as we would be more than happy to answer any question regarding the subject of pricing stones .  Under nearly all circumstances if a certain opal appeals to you that is the gemstone you should buy at gems fair often, intuition is the best judge! When purchasing stones, some key words to look for are triplet a very thin slice of opal enhanced by blackening the underside to make the colors stronger and a quartz or plastic dome placed on top of the stone to magnify the color and pattern. The advantage is they are cheap and fit readily into standard size jewelry. Doublet a thicker slice  with a blackened underside advantage over a triplet is the surface is real .  Solid as the name suggests a real and solid stone therefore triplet has less value than doublet which has much less value than  solid when size color and pattern are the same.   We design jewelry using opals in the design for opal gemstone jewelry show, opals can have all the colors of unique rare and different gemstone from around the world in one jewelry design. Opals have green colors like emerald, red garnets, white pearls,dark pigeon red ruby’s, light green-dark green of jade and the dark blue-light...

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Gemstones Black Opal Mining Lightning Ridge Australian.

Gemstones Black Opal Mining Lightning Ridge Australian.

Posted by on Jan 5, 2014 in about opals, Black opals, Cutting opals, History of black opals, How to price opals, october birthstones, October gemstone, Opal jewelry, Opal mining, opal ring, opals, Polished opals, Wholesale opals, いらっしゃいませ |

Black opal mining in Australia. Black opal mining is around the town of Lightning Australian,the town has a olympic pool and water theme park operates during the summer months a great place to cool off, or just do some swimming exercise after weeks spent behind your four-wheel-drive unwinding all the stiff muscles.   Guys this truly is a high-class Olympic swimming pool construction “one not to miss why you’re out on the gem fields”. Black opal mining is around the town of Lightning Australian,the town has a olympic pool and water theme park operates during the summer months a great place to cool off, or just do some swimming exercise after weeks spent behind your four-wheel-drive unwinding all the stiff muscles.   Guys this truly is a high-class Olympic swimming pool construction “one not to miss why you’re out on the gem fields.   Black opal mining in Australia.     Black opal mining in Australia. Weekend during winter months in June July check out the local rugby competition, a lot of the players on the lightning Ridge team are miners. Free of charge when purchasing stones over $191,Graham’s jewelers will hand make professional goldsmith design jewelry to suit the gemstone purchased ,clients personal designs excepted also . Black opal mining  there’s even a golf course, maybe you will find a stone by playing golf , there’s even horse racing along with the spectacular bowling club where you will meet all the opal characters, today’s miner’s and retired  miner’s also. The club is license and has a great gaming room , extremely large room wall to wall pockier machines betting on the horse races internationally is very popular at the club. There is a very large function room also that host so many lightning Ridge functions from live bands music etc, very late July you have the Opal Gem Expo , where the international jewelry designs have on exhibition all their latest designs , judged and rewarded accordingly . The second waterhole is down from the bowling club at the Newtown hotel motel where you can buy some stones from the miners drinking beer there.   Black opal mining Australia. Do the rounds of the stores to buy a stone why you are their, they are all good value you will not get a better price anywhere in the world shopping for black gems.See is the 3 mile Road protected mining site the richest fields in the industry, the best quality ever seen where the rarest patten was first discovered the harlequin and of cause the large uncut black opal ever found was located there. There are safe viewing ramps for the public to get a birds eye view of the history of the biggest gem open cut mine in the world. Two of the guys who found the Halley’s comet were working with me on a share venture mining lease...

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Opal Industry Opal Jewelry Opal Rings.

Opal Industry Opal Jewelry Opal Rings.

Posted by on Jan 4, 2014 in about opals, Australian opal jewelry, Black opals, Care for opal jewelry, Cutting opals, Handmade opal jewelry, Handmade opal necklace, How to price opals, october birthstones, October gemstone, Opal certificates, Opal mining, opal ring, Opal ring, Articles Jewelry., opals, Opals for sale, Polished opals, selling opal jewelry, Tucson Gem Show, Wholesale opals, いらっしゃいませ |

Post is about Australian opal industry in recent years in Australia. Guy’s big sale on now black opal rings jewelry hand made Australia stones,from the only mine lease, listed on State Heritage Register List as an item of environmental heritage in LEP National Trust of Australia Register. Free of charge when purchasing stones over $191, the jewelers will hand make professional goldsmith design jewelry to suit the gemstone purchased ,clients personal designs excepted. Heritage submission read “Opal More rarely, specimens contain precious opal and these are surely among the most beautiful natural objects on earth. The opal is of the highest quality, characterized by red/black gems of superlative brilliance. Opal Industry particularly in the state of New South Wales the mining towns have had to adapt to so many changes . These changes mostly come from the State government which controls the industry the mining registered office is situated in the town of lightning Ridge . Chemical  Si02.nH20 and the name comes from the Ancient word ”Opalus” meaning to see a play of colors, opal’s consists of Hydrated amorphous Silica. The unique play of colors characteristics of this gemstone, caused by silica spheres cemented together by silica gel .Hardness 6 average. Volcanic rocks in cavities and cracks sedimentary volcanic percolating water in the ground dissolves silica that precipitates to make an opal, can replace wood fossils shells and animal bones that lived 100,000,000 years ago, original material had dissolved.     Cate Blanchett wore lucky opal earrings at the Oscars, everyone noticed Cate’s jewelry as she collected her Oscar for best actress 2014.      Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in similar gems, and more information regarding top quality Opals . 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 the coach 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 Championships and in Beijing Olympics .     Opal Industry, all surrounding mining leases in the State come under the control of the NSW government .    To renew a claim it has got easier the last couple years where a lease holder can renewal there yearly lease when they receive their yearly notification from the Department the prospector simply filling out the form and mails payment and the form back to the government authority. This would have to be the best upgrade the Department has made in decades which improves the working conditions of the miners particularly if they are a long way from their mines visiting relatives funerals weddings etc . “But the Department need to take into account claim holders traveling off shore marketing their gemstones , visiting jewelry boutiques and...

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Buying Opal Rough.

Buying Opal Rough.

Posted by on Jan 1, 2014 in about opals, Black opals, Cutting opals, How to price opals, opals, Polished opals, selling opal jewelry |

Buying opal rough and off cut stones. Buying opal rough from the miner, most removed whatever stones he has a market for and sells them.  With off cuts you can usually tell what you are going to be able to cut, you must watch for cracks in the stones because once a crack becomes obvious a stone can lose half its value. Buying opal rough, uncut on the internet buy samples first if possible,  the rough image photo is about $6000.00 to 5,000.00 dollars of rough Australian lightning Ridge stones. If some of the rough is faced it makes the rough parcel far less risk. If you’re buying on the mining fields try to find clues in the rough parcel. Most rough is sold wet so you can see the colors as they will be when they are polished,this is standard practice. Buying opal rough. I’ve made up a couple of parcels I found in the mine one day, I sold one parcel and the parcel you are looking at now I decided to cut.  I was hoping to do better the large green blue stone in the photo below is what I retrieved out of the very large rough in the image above, unfortunately I was not as happy as I thought it was cleaner no black in the face of the green color and I was hoping for a more vibrant pattern, like Amazon pattern and possibly other multicolors would appear deeper in the rough, the large stone on a private sale about $10,000.00 so you get your money back and make a little bit and the rest of the smaller stones a few more dollars, not a parcel that I would invest in with hindsight. Buying opal rough. However it pays to wipe a few bits dry as this will show up any crazing or cracks often caused from contact with jack hammers or bulldozers etc ! Faced pieces will show up the general character of the whole parcel usually. Miners don’t mind you taking a good close look at their product, but if you find something you don’t like be discreet. Never knock or rubbish some ones opal .They’ve probably worked really hard for it and they won’t like unkind comments     Color is the primary criteria for grading, but the graders also take into consideration the number of imperfections and faults, and whether a stone is the right shape to be cut into an oval or one of the other popular shapes.   Copyright...

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