Unboxing Black Opal | All You Need to Know About Australia's Mystery Gem
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2022
- Today's special guest is an Australian opal expert bringing us amazing black opals & a few more surprises! Learn where precious opal is found, how it is cut, and why it is so valuable. Plus color patterns you have to see to believe!
01:14 - How to Price Black Opal
02:19 - Opal Cutting
04:35 - Opal Rarity
05:35 - Huge Patterned Opals
07:03 - Black Crystal Opal
07:40 - Running an opal business
Subscribe to Gemstones.com: bit.ly/subgems
Check out our Gemopedia: www.gemstones.com/gemopedia
Gemstones.com is one of the leading experts on gemstones and is the best source on TH-cam for all things gem related. Featuring gem history, the science behind the stones, gemstones in pop culture, and much more, you too can become a gemology expert by immersing yourself in the Gemstones.com channel. Rebecca, our host, is a Graduate Gemologist from the Gemological Institute of America and has an FGA from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.
Website: www.gemstones.com/?mcid=XSOyt
Facebook: gemstonesdot...
Instagram: gemstones?...
#Gemstones #opal #australia #jtv #lightningridge #blackopal #birthstone
We still have visions of color dancing in our heads from Michelle's wonderful opals! Which was your favorite? And would you like to see more kinds of opal on this channel? Let us know!
The crystal opal was my fav, so cool!! Thanks to Michelle, it was nice to see her again!! 💜
As a budding opal cutter YES!
More Opal please. Even The opal we can find here in the U.S.
I bought a leather ring years ago. The stones were exquisite and very cheap; volcano quartz, (clear and orange-red). Do you know anything about volcano quartz? 🎃👻🧛♂️🦄💕
"A Closer Look" gets a whole new meaning now that TH-cam features the new "pinch/zoom" capability! Absolutely stunning! God, I love this channel!
Opal is probably my favorite gemstone and I wish there was more men's jewelry featuring it.
Wait what, I gottta try this
You might want to check the "Black Opal Direct" channel and the "Pulitzer Opal" channel as well, then.
@@davedarling4316 I love them!
@@davedarling4316 and for those who are into dremeling opal, like myself, roys rocks is a great channel.
and, the opal mills is a good resource as well.
I have a black opal pendant that's been passed down into my family for almost 100 years. It's my favorite piece and I treasure it. Opals are my favorite stone
u think its have healing?
The closer look piece was my favorite, too! And the 2nd one shown was my 2nd favorite 🥰
Wow! Stones are one of the few things that give me joy in life! ☺
Too pretty! It is a wonder how much sweat and pain and adventure it takes to find these elusive gems in their hidden places, and then polish them with so much care and then let everyone enjoy their beauty. Love your shows!
That large red flagstone piece, simply stunning. Can't believe they didn't have a cloth on the table, one accidental drop could cost a lot of money.
Those opals are amazing! 😍 I can't even imagine how much work, time, stress, and love went into each one from the time they were mined to now, when we can see them in their finished form!
Stunning gems!! I love cutting opal, I would love to cut a gem of this quality!!👍😁
I love opal, such a precious stone
My favorite stone of ALL TIME. LIGHTNING RIDGE OPAL IS #1 but price I get lost. And yes We all have Oops pieces. Thank you & Dan for digging & sharing
Black opals are the most beautiful gems
Wonderful, Lightning Ridge black opals are simply magical. Thank you Michelle for showing us lots of beauties. My favourites are the pure blue and the blue/green ones, even though they are less expensive than ones featuring orange and red, the limited colour palette appeals to me and it reminds me of the sea. Yes I would love to see diferent kinds of opals featured on this channel!
Thank you so much Michelle and happy hunting. Good luck!!
Wow! Thank you Michelle, for coming on and sharing that wonderful black opal and all the colors of opal! Opal is unmatched in its beauty and fire, and the pieces she brought are exceptional.
Woah, Beautiful. And Michelle was wonderful. Hope she's back soon!
Thanks for sharing. It blows my mind still that opal can form from 7,000 to 120 millions years ago. ❤
I love Australian opal. I’m subscribed to the lovely BlackOpalDirect to get my Aussie opal fix.
WOW! She sure brought some treasures with her today!
Absolutely amazing! My dad and I are getting ready to get into opal cabochon making and eventually into faceting other material if everything goes well later down the line. A fun video idea would be tips on choosing rough material and taking that to a finished stage. You guys are so fun to watch and I've learned so much from these videos, keep up the strong work!
watch black opal direct videos. justin shows you how to cut opals. hes a master.
also: faceting opals is monsterous.
@@ThatOpalGuy I appreciate the recommendation! Those guys are awesome! I'm trying to keep up with them and Pulitzer Opal. Those guys are a hoot. With opal we'd stick with making cabochons. Faceting opal isn't my favorite style for the stone.
Thank you Michelle! Incredible gemstones!!
Really Appreciate The Guests You Invite & Admire The Efforts You Put For These Amazing Unique Experiences
What beautiful stones! Thank you Michelle for sharing them with us.
Immediate click. Each frame is a "graded price per ct", from my eye (when you have a few you can category to quality), and parcels sell as a whole, not single stones chosen out of as a rule wholesale & choose retail . You buy a pour at wholesale, you can pick at retail. Black Opal is why I moved to Nevada to mine.
Wow, nice stones, great work Michelle
Nicely done interview enjoyed this
Wow! Absolutely beautiful. Thank you. 😀
Beautiful stones, my absolute favourites, thanks!!
Thank you for a segment on Opals: Michelle has a dream marraige/job! Opals have been my favorite stone since childhood, and Lightening Ridge Opals are the bomb diggity! So much color, so much variety. Someday I will own one for sure!❤
Thank you for the videos. Opal has such beautiful colours.
Thank you for video with magical Black opals :))
Thanks for sharing those amazing Opals.
I love all the lightening ridge crew……….very cool (gal from oz)
Thank you Michelle & Rebecca, this was so much fun!
I love opals♥ I have some synthetic beads & am working on cutting & polishing 8 black opals atm.
These pieces are amazing, wonderful work :]
We love opals. Yes we would love to see more types and any problems with them, like crazing. Thanks for sharing your stones and time with us. 😷⚒ Happy Halloween! 👻🎃🧟♀️☠👹
I love the color play in the opals. I have a large white opal ring, that has a lot of color, but it's not very noticeable. My favorite opal ring is a smaller black opal with blue and green colors flashing. It's set with a black enamel setting. It's My daughter's favorite too and she's waiting for it. 😊🥰
another AMAZING video. this channel is like a university program sometimes ahahahah ❤
First to comment on my FAVORITE channel and MY FAVORITE STONE! I LOVE YOU GUYS AND WHAT YOU DO!
Thanks. Very beautiful.
How challenging is it to cut and polish sapphire and topaz without diamond?
Awalys waiting for the next suprise....happy gem hunting
man those are stunning
They are awesome
Another Cute video !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love opals.they are pretty.
Amazing opals 😍🤩
awesome segment. thanks for providing information to those who are not familiar with australian opals.
viewers, be careful, opalholism is real!
Love 💕 opals
Outstanding work of OpalArt and Thank You for sharing👍👍👍💎
Btw, I have more Opel`s🚙than Opal`s 💎🤩🤣 my favorite gem😋
YES!!! OPALS!!
My favorite stone
OMG My lovely Gem😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
How can we buy from here. Is she have website? Which you share for us thanks
Opal is the best gem
Exellent ❤
I want them all!!
I love opal ❤️
The potch it's called it can be black or gray.
Could you please do a vid on goodolite
Does Michelle's opal co have a website?
You can shop her opals on our gemstones.com storefront on Jedora! www.jedora.com/shop/gemstones
Hi, I am looking for a buyer for gemstone in Australia, specially in Sydney. I am planning to bring precious Ceylon gem stones to Australia in coming months...
I want much opals stones in my collection
I’ll thank Michelle even more if she sends me one of them large opals!!😂
😍😍😍😍
Yayyyyyy🌈🦄🐱
Opalholic here
Wow. 5 years without finding opal when that's your whole income. Crazy.
A light table. . 🔦
number3
three peoples 3
Fyi those cuts that make you sick... best learning opportunities. Mess up an expensive stone and you go over what went wrong a few times...
Name of her business?
😁🇦🇺
Quilpie boulder matrix opal is prettier.
I'll fight anyone who disagrees
ဝါး
podría darme su opinion? la zona del comienzo del video de iridiscencia de colores, pero la cámara refleja su luz, lo que se ve amarillo anarnjado tambien da tonailides azules rojas th-cam.com/video/yYKLvyc0-8c/w-d-xo.html
Hello my cousin Matthew what you doing I need to hook up with you so we can go home and take me home
Love opals. Don't do dishes with an opal ring on.
It's the only gem that is alive with the water of life.
Australian opal is fine in water. Ethiopian opal takes on water.
@@joeporter4970 Still, EVERY dealer will tell you to keep it clean and never ultrasonically clean one. As I wear a opal in wood pendent for over 20 years every where & under everything my body has been, Digging to hot springing to sub zero outside temps. Not a new crack. The majority of Australian Opal is fine and the volcanic opal can be just as good and even more shock resistant, as in the dropping from 6 foot test, BUT not every stone is the same as opal is individually formed. Some are more bullet proof but all the good dealers will replace the rare stones that break on their own because crazy is all that opal does on its own, impact is on you.
Michelle’s life is dedicated to Opal and yet she comes on this channel wearing diamond ear rings. Debeers who have a monopoly on the very common diamond market tried everything they could to destroy the Opal industry. They knew that diamonds are so common as to have no real value and the only way to keep the suckers buying them was to quash competition from rarer gems with superior colour, real rarity and true value. They spread rumour about Opals being bad luck by commissioning books from popular authors, they bought Opal mines in Hungary ( The main supplier at the time ) and closed them down. Why would you ware a clear piece of glass like rock when you could ware a one of a kind piece of unique jem stone glistening with a one of a kind pattern and dazzling colour ?
this guest scares me,i dont know why she looks like a mom that will hit you so bad,by the way im 30.
What the fuck lol
7:03 that piece is worth like 5 bucks lmao it's nothing but sand ingression. you can spend days and cut 2 or 3 tiny half karat pieces out of it but the amount of work would exceed the price of the gems in the end
You need a microscope to even see them.
#HardiAlamsyah king of Black Opal from Indonesian..