Rings with black opal from Graham Black opal mining lease,the only lease listed on State Heritage Register.
Black opal mine “Heritage submission read, black opal more rarely, specimens contain precious black opal”And these are surely among the most beautiful natural objects on earth. The Black opal is of the highest quality, characterized by red/black gems of superlative brilliance.
Graham Black opal mine was also “list as an item of environmental heritage in LEP National Trust of Australia Register”. Sale I will make free of charge,”customers purchasing 1 stones over $191″. Graham’s jewelers will hand make professional goldsmith design jewelry to suit the gemstone purchased ,clients personal designs excepted.
Graham Black opal design ring with Australian black opal.
Black opal ring and jewelry only come from Australia Lightning Ridge, but the South American Inca empire or Ink-a empire culture loved fire opal, Machu Picchu the mysterious lost Inca City was likely built to serve as both a royal estate and a religious retreat . Spanish conquerors discovered tremendous stones from South American bolder opal and spectacular fire opal crystal incase in gold jewelry, items designed for the Ink-a period.
Black opal ring 18 ct. gold diamonds Australian jewelry.
Mining location also list as an item of environmental heritage in LEP National Trust of Australia Register.
Don’t forget jewelry sale ring with Australian black opal, custom made by master Australian jewelers.
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.
You can have all the brilliance intensity 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 blue of sapphires,red color spindle gemstone, topaz beautiful blue , and the pink color of tourmaline, opal crystals as clear as diamonds and can have all these colors also yellow, and the exotic black Opal can have all the colors of the rainbow spectrum,iridescent multicolor hardness: 5.5 to 6.5
Famous opals, Aurora Australis,opal is the birthstone for the month of October.
The Aurora Australis was discovered at the capital of the black opal industry the township known as Lightning Ridge in the state of New South Wales Australia . The cut and polished stone features a harlequin pattern in which red, green and blue are the dominant opal colors against the stone’s black opal background.
The Aurora Australis 180 carats and measures 3”-1. 8 ”. Fire Queen gemstone sale proved a challenge, at the time there was little market for large opals.
1928 the Fire Queen opal had been renamed and valued at £40,000 sold to Mr Rockefeller for £75,000 and joined the Rockefeller family’s prestigious gemstone and jewelry collection.
History Black Opals From Australia Image 2 of Graham’s custom ring swith black opals.
Australian black opal rings with diamonds.
In November 1906, Charlie who found Dunstan’s gemstone later renamed the Fire Queen at the town named Angledool diggings north west form Lightning Ridge ,the opal weighed nearly 900 carats and at the time was the largest opal ever discovered. Dunstan traveled into Angeldool town where a local indigenous tribe were living at the time with the opal gemstone and sold the rare gem opal for a mere £100 . In November 1910 his death in his hut from a gunshot to the head, a policeman in the township of Angledool, where at the time if a policeman were not over 6 foot and 2 pick handles across the shoulder and could not bear knuckle box with the best, he could not police the district. Charlie Dunstan while he was in town he got drunk and lost two other large gem he was carrying, death was a suicide as the country in the North west of the State of New South Wales was harsh, extremely hot summer with little water and only the physically and mentally strong miner’s could survive.
The Flamingo stone and the Black Prince gem , originally known as Harlequin Prince gem, was found at the phone line Lightning Ridge Australia by Tom Urwin and Snowy 1915 , also pride of Australia black opal, the Flamingo gem-Empress of Australia. Lightning Ridge has named streets after the gemstones . Of the 4 opals Flamingo was the largest gem, weighing over 800 carats! 1920 Snowy and Urwin sold all 4 gems for £2000 to Ernie Sherman the most $ paided for black Ridge gems at the time.
In modern times Sherman son’s big buyers in Lightning Ridge, good guys known to pay a fair price for opal gemstones, and were respected by the miners. The Black Prince was 181 carats flag pattern on one side and is red on the other. American soldier bought the Black Prince in England and eventually donated the opal gemstone to a New York Museum . Later the gem joined the collection at the Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Los Angeles only to be stolen in the same theft as the Pride of Australia Opal gemstone.
Terry Barclay the claim holder and Gray one of the syndicate who found the biggest uncut black gemstone in modern times, told me in the 1990s that the Sherman brothers at that time was still paying a fair prices for gemstones at lightning Ridge.
The year 2000 I personally show Sherman a $40,000 dollar stone that i named the liberty flame, it was in the shape of a flame . I found the stone not far from the phone Line while open cutting next door to where the Halley’s comet was found at the famous 3 mile Lightning Ridge Fields.
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