Hand made opal jewelry and opal rings Australian opal gemstone.
Hand made opal jewelry handcrafted.
Hand made opal jewelry lot cheaper hear because you have gone direct to the primary producer goldsmith handmade ring designer, that open cut his own Australian opal mine. Here you are going direct wholesale prices to Mr Graham Black site and shopping cart, with the best deposit of Australian opals ever discovered from the only official government Heritage listed opal mine in the country of Australia, Heritage listed because the quality is the best deposit of opal gemstones ever discovered anywhere in the world. Sale 75% Savings Off your own free personal custom design, if you purchase one of our wholesale opals over $199 US, we make free your choice in design pendant or Australian opal ring, you pay International going price for gold or silver, delivery insurance free to your address.
Hand made opal jewelry choice is simply either black opal jewelry or crystal opal in a beautiful handmade opal jewelry design. Some of the white multi color gemstones from the fields of South Australia can be very beautiful if this type of stone suits your taste. About Australian handmade opal jewelry more information at YouTube Channel the channel is named opal jewelry with various videos on the subject of opal jewelry designs. People with lower budgets fine the Australian white opal more affordable, Lightning Ridge in the state of New South Wales has the most expensive, the black multicolor flawless high domed gemstone, and when set in a beautiful jewelry design that reveals a rare fabulous opal pattern then you are looking at big money.
Hand made opal jewelry.
Most of the gemstones come from the country of Ethiopia and the majority is crystal, but do not pay the same price for this type of jewelry, as this grade of opal is nothing like the Australian crystal. You cannot even compare the two gemstones and this is why you pay more for Australian opal jewelry.
And this rule of thumb goes with all opal jewelry being a necklace or earrings, pendants with gemstones from Australia the gemstone will be of a much higher quality, much more intense in color less flaws then either Mexico Brazilian crystal or Ethiopian, so when you are thinking about purchasing your next jewelry item.
Today most of the jewelry is not hand made opal jewelry because its made in India.
Always look for a gemstone with either black or grey colors or mixtures on the under side back of the stone as this will give you the best indication its Australian semi black . Unfortunately the crystal is more difficult but if you find a percentage of black on the bottom of the stone, this is a good chance it comes from Australia but when these gemstones are set in jewelry it is often difficult to see the back as the gold and metals often covers the bottom of the gemstone.
Being passed off as solid opal jewelry, but again this is very easy to tell if the outer edges are not covered by the jewelry setting, as to make a doublet the two surfaces have to be extremely flat the dark bottom then glued to a thin crystal layer, if you study the stone and look strongly at the sides you will see the difference between the two, as solid opal the sides are usually not very regular between the color on the top and the bottom layer what is known in the trade as porch.
Hand crafted opal jewelry rings custom Australian opal designer Graham Black jeweler.
The very unique Australian opal gemstone supply is very limited, no longer in large amounts available to suppliers, basically because the Ethiopia crystal is a much lower grade and many new dealers buyers do not understand this and naturally purchasing the cheaper. Naturally Ethiopian is dominating the market particularly as the supply has been in abundance, this has forced the Australian primer producer to stop expiration.
In the long term this had to force the price up as all the buyers which travel to Australian regularly to purchase quantities of rough and cut stones were forced to go elsewhere to purchase what was available,and the big Chinese buyers purchase such large quantities along with the Indians the price has doubled on the mining fields, The Indian buyers were the first buyers they have very cheap manufacturing base in India for cutting and polishing cabochons, calibrated faceted gems and beads.
As the Indian buyers purchased large amounts in the very early stages before the world had even heard of the new rush, now everybody knows about the supply prices are on the increase and the party is over for low grade and commercial grade crystal. At the moment about the only stone in Australia being produced in quantities is in the state of Queensland boulder. Often some of these opal teams will start looking elsewhere shortly for the much better quality of black and crystal in the southern states of Australia, hopefully the new buyers have learnt a lot from cutting the more inferior Ethiopian rough and have learnt that only a small amount can be retrieved for the better commercial grade market and realize that they do need to pay more for the Australian commercial and gem A grade stones.
Let’s hope shortly there is a new deposit discovered around Lightning Ridge, so we can all make hand made opal jewelry as this is a gem that no other opal producing location in the world can even get slightly near in comparison to the dazzling intensity strength of this beautiful black opal . When you see a beautiful very high cabochon multicolor red with a good pattern set in a nice opal jewelry ring, as far as i am concerned there is no other jewelry that compares. These discoveries are not revealed often and the big ones only come around about every 50 years, the highest quality of all the locations is lightning Ridge Australia, that was discovered around the 1900 in the far north west of the state of New South Wales a very long days drive from Sydney the capital of the state. Later on a lot of black seam was discovered at the Grawin, which produced beautiful opal patterns about an hours drive from lightning ridge, and then around 1990 the new Corcoran was discovered, with fabulous black cabochons with thick color bars, buy new millennium this area was just about worked out. Smaller locations have been found also just out of the township of Lighting Ridge since, but nothing like the quantity discovered 45 minutes at the Corcoran mining location.
And of course be wary of hand made opal jewelry that is not sold but a doublet.
South Australian opal regions were discovered where the largest amounts ever of white and crystal was cut from the rough to make very beautiful commercial grade opal jewelry along with some fabulous top-quality jewelry ever seen. Semi black and crystal was discovered at Andamooka in South Australia to the east is the state of Victoria to the west is Western Australia. In 1968 some good grades of crystal was discovered in Brazil and of course the Ethiopian Welo mines in late 2000. Mexican semiprecious and commercial grade is difficult to find in larger quantities quite rare, when it comes to the majority of the countries that are know to be the main producers are now no longer supplying significant quantities for the opal jewelry markets.
Doublets and triplets that is sold out of Hong Kong is in low supply, now the Ethiopian is drying up and getting more expensive and maybe as the Australian mining boom which has been supplying China with steel is slowing up also, hopefully some of the miner might return back to the opal fields, they should all be cashed up to start expiration and discover new Australian opal gemstone deposits which, we will then see again the best quality hand made opal jewelry manufactured in the world.
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