Opal Stone Buyers Guide: Prices, Different Species, How To Care For Your Ring & Identifying Fakes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- For this video we interviewed a certified FGA, GIA gemologist. We will cover everything there is to know about opals, from prices, identifying fakes, how to care for your opal ring. Whether or not opals are a good choice for an engagement ring.
We will also oversee all the different species of opals, such as Ethiopian, boulder opals, Australian Black opals, Peruvian opals and Mexican fire opals!
Hope this helps your buying process!
If you are looking to buy an opal or create a custom jewel, get in touch at info@fineandflux.com and we will be happy to help. You can also view our custom jewelry gallery here to see our latest work!:
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It would be nice to show the stones while elaborate.
This video is great, would love if you to show the stones close up as you talk about them.
I come from an opal mining family in Australia. "Red on black" opals are the most expensive not necessarily the rarest but they are broght up pretty quickly for the asian market so they end up being "rare" to be sold anywhere else.
My husband and I drove out to Lightning Ridge, and I studied up on opals before I went. We went to a reputable retailer. He bought me the most beautiful small solid black opal ring. I chose one with red, orange, and blue green broadflash patterns. It's so beautiful 😍
I collect opal for over 50 years as well opalised fossils it’s just amazing what the nature can do
I have in my collection some miracle opal fossils specimens .
I love your documentary ❤🎉
i collect opalised fossils too
Are you looking to sell any 😊
With jewelry, always buy what you love and you’ll never lose value. If you’re buying mainly as an investment, educate, educate, educate yourself, and then find a reputable dealer. Wonderful video with great information.
Would like to buy Ethiopian Opal
They’re all gorgeous. My eyes are just drawn to the Mexican fire opal and the Ethiopian one 😍 1) Ethiopian Opal, 2) Mexican Fire Opal
wait, there were opals in this video?
They are all so beautiful, thank you for all of the information. I'd love the Ethiopian opal!
It's noted, good luck!!
Very interesting! Thank You 💗
Glad you enjoyed it!
So educational! I love the peruvian opal!
Hey!! Thank you have such an awesome video on opals!! Thank you for being so damn kind with the giveaway!!! I would love the Mexican fire opal, looks so damn cool, definitely something to die for lol.
Haha no problem,I'm glad you liked the video and good luck on the contest! :)
Loved the video! Opals are one of my favorite stones! They're all beautiful but I would love to win the Peruvian opal 😍
Awesome!! They’re all amazing but I think I love the Ethiopian opal
any opal is entrancing.
great video Dom!
love the Ethiopian and the Peruvian Opal :)
I love the Peruvian opal! So pretty!
It's pretty right!
Wish you had more close ups of them. And no I consider script pattern more rare than Harliquine but price is a lot about what the popular color is for that year and the Brightness after black base color
Technically the rarest patterns for opal are dependent on the type/locality.
For instance,
When considering Australian black opal, as far as I'm aware the rarest occurrence is for the stone to display "asterism" in their play of colour, very few examples are known to exist, even cat's eye stones are quite rare to see in "precious" opal, however, many examples of this chatoyant phenomena have been found in black opals and thus the cat's eyes are probably more common than true harlequin patterns.
The problem with the harlequin pattern is that many stones displaying "flagstone" patterns are mislabeled as harlequin, this may lead people to believe that harlequin patterns are much less rare than they actually are.
With Ethiopian opal, the rarest pattern is generally considered to be the "honeycomb" pattern although this may not be 100% true, it is however the most desired pattern for Ethiopian opal.
Unfortunately the difficulty with establishing definitive scales of rarity for opals stem from the mining practices, it's easy to determine what is the most common, just look at the marketplace, however, determining what is the rarest is obtained by word of mouth from the lapidaries as truely rare examples almost never make it to market and when they do, they sell fast.
organic content trapped in the potch makes the opal black. White opal formed in areas with low organic content in heavily eroded sandstone. Black generally is found in air pockets of clay
I only buy rough Australian black opals (via Australian auctions that often source Lightening Ridge opals) and cut them by hand. I am certainly no expert, but I am impressed with how well they turned out. I stay away from doublets and triplets.
I LOVE LOVE Opal!! Loved them since I was little. I had an opal ring, I have no idea where it is now. I also named my betta fish Opal because her color is like white opal. Thank you for the IG giveaway. I would love any of them, they are all beautiful!! 😍😍😍
Thank you for sharing this guide, I learned so many new facts about Opals I now have a greater appreciation for them! I'm hoping to win the Peruvian Opal!
I'm glad it was interesting for you! Ok it's noted and good luck!
Loved the video! I would love the Peruvian Blue Opal! Secondly, the Mexican fire Opal. Both are stunning due to their color saturation and not typically the kind of opal you see 💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️
Glad you liked it :) yes I think most people would not know that their opals!
Thank you for posting. My beloved lightning ridge opal earrings are sooo fake and sold to me as real. I'm educating myself and these videos help so much.
Oh no I'm sorry to hear your earrings weren't real 😔 happy the video helped!
The Peruvian opal with black inclusions is so beautiful!
Right! Is has such a unique look :)
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I love black opal and Mexican fire opal👐🏼🦋🦋🔥
Ultimate "shock her" introduction after the introduction: 3-5 fire opals (the liquid look) with a slender gold chain bracelet. The natural with the chain... ultimate curiosity.
Very cool!! Thank you!! Would love to win the Mexican fire opal
Nice!
Thanks ❤ so much for the information in video form I greatly appreciate the knowledge my friend 🫶🏻
My pleasure!!
WE LOVE ALL OPALS AND NOW I HAVE BEEN LIKING FIRE AGATES -Slaughter Mountain, Deer Creek and then there is the Mexican FIRE AGATES-Escalante's( Pe'a tros Ne'gros?= Black Fire Agates, ohhh the colors
The peruvian opal is gorgeous!
Right!! I love it too :)
@@DominiqueFlux thanks for this episode! I really loved it!
Love to see you growing as well!
There is a TH-cam video showing acetone used to remove oils and other infiltrates from hydrophane opal. The acetone does not harm gold or silver settings. It’s worth saving that ink-filled stone in this video.
ohhhhh damn! The Mexican fire opal or the Ethiopian opal 🥲 Love love love! The mexican fire opal would look so good with my tangerine fruit studs 🤤🥳
Perúvian opal is so pretty 😍
I love all these opals soooo much, but the Mexican opal might be my favourite
It has a really nice flair to it!
I liked the information but it would've been nice if we could have seen the stones and comparisons up close.
Im sending u tomorrow the videos about an item(opal)...
This video helped me a lot but the opal I'm getting is only 1.40 and it doesn't look like opal doubes because in the video before I bought the opal you can see all around the opal
What a great video! My mum loves opals, so I would love to win the classic Ethiopian one to make a necklace to carry her with me 💖
Hey, Lovely video. I would LOVE to win the Mexican fire opal
On the topic of synthetic opals.
This may not be as interesting to others as I personally find it to be, however:
I feel the need to mention that whilst columnar formations like those seen in the Gilson imitations are generally only associated with synthetic opals, it isn't impossible for natural opals to form with very similar columnar patterns to those seen in the synthetics, it is simply exceedingly rare for them to do so.
I have in my collection a Queensland boulder opal displaying a regular columnar formation with ironstone that I personally cut from rough, I made sure to retain the ironstone so that it could be easily identifiable.
The same can be said for "lizard skin" patterns often associated with Gilson synthetics, previously I have observed a deceptively similar pattern in some Andamooka matrix opal.
Neither stone would be considered particularly valuable in the market though as the Boulder opal only displayed a limited play of colour from green-yellow, and, the Andamooka was heavily included with a directionally dependent play of colour.
Although the stones exhibited what could be described as attributes most often associated with the synthetics, neither would be mistaken for the synthetics for the obvious aforementioned other reasons.
I understand that most people won't have much interest in these particular examples, however, it is something that personally afforded me a greater appreciation for the synthetic opals and their somewhat unique appearance.
"the rainbow serpent" th-cam.com/video/ZS6i1LEZXIY/w-d-xo.html
Why dont you make close ups to the stones -_- ???
we have a lot of opal here..
how much if i will sell
.what is the price
I love the Ethiopian Opal! 💎
Mee too!
thanks for helpful video I know its year old but its really help and I like to email for you guys where do I find that
That square Peruvian opal is stunning. I have one the same shade, and I am obsessed with the paraiba color in the opal.
The vidoe is a little disappointing as the camera is not situated to catch much of what is going on.
Austrailin Black opal N-1 now about $50,000.00 per___,. Oh, BTW PINEAPPLE OPAL!!! Have you seen the Yawoh Nut Opal-THE ANGEL OVER-$1,000,000.00++
can you please help me identify a stone i have? it was found in a mountain by my father years ago.
Hi I'm IDRIS From Nigeria I have some raw blue Sapphire stones and I'm looking for someone who can buy.
Try touching a rough opal with the tip of your tongue to see if it's Hydrophane,I once heard. I tried,and some really do stick .
Mexican fire opal 😍😍
Soak or submerge the opal to glass with water , the opal you will see the multi color of opals
You should have given a close up of the stones she was talking about
I’d love to win the Peruvian opal! Ive never seen anything like it!
I know it's such a crazy color you would never think they're opals!
Good evening ma'am ihave a opal stone from Manila Philippines
I agree that they show more of the opals than faces
If it dosnt have a play of color then it shouldn`t be considered an opal imo, I have a 10ct black lightning ridge 4n brightness of 4.5 with ultra violet - brilliant blue. I love it but Ive had opals that lose there color and it didnt come back even after I dryed it out for a couple months.
Why? it's all the same composition. Same bs with saphire and ruby. It's dumb. It's all opal. If anything, opal with play of color should just be called gem opal to separate them.
That's so fascinating. I've been trying to find out the value of our antique opal ring. It has come down through the family but after loosing my mum a few years ago we don't know what to do with it. None of my sisters or nieces would wear it so I'm thinking about selling it and giving the money to my dad (hes wanting to go for a trip to Iceland and seeing the northern lights). Still have no idea how much its worth but looking at this video was brilliant 😁
Hi Claire, I'm glad you liked the video! I would watch our video on appraisals, that's probably your best bet in determining the value, good luck!!
@@DominiqueFlux brilliant, thank you. I'll be watching it as soon as I've finished work 😁
@@clairehamilton3293 awesome! Let me know if you have any questions :)
Black opal is my favorite, have several with all colors of rainbow
Yes its such a cool stone, no other gemstone has those color combos!
Fire opal
You girls can get me some opals 😅
For sure!
Hi gdevening guys cn u help me to deal with my opal
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New friend here and full support your channel my dear nice content
Oh thabk you!!!
Dominique ¡Cásate conmigo! 🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍
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The verbal information was good, the visual was virtually nonexistent. The background noise was annoying
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It would have been nice to see close up as shes explaining. I couldn't see a thing 😢
Ethiopian opal!
Your Guest does know her Opals. KEEP ALL OPALS AWAY FROM MOTOR OILS!!!
She's shown you but we can't see it
Hello mem i have available opal stone
I think Bleach may not be good to get on an opal
Pulitzer opal and black opal direct will help you know what real opal is..lol
If you like ethiopian opal then Global Prospecting is also a good channel to watch, they cut lots of that opal.
Can't see anything!!!
I want to sell my white opal
She’s actually not very informed about this and shared a bunch of misinformation. N1-n4 darkness all have same value based on darkness, it’s the color play/brightness and pattern that are more important not how black it is. As long as it fits into the black opal range of n1-n4.
What?? Lol solid opal is solid opal. Potch doesnt determine if its solid. Wow, the best opal in the world is solid and has a potch back most of the time. If you add a backing its a doublet. If you add a quartz cap to its a triplet.
Host rock naturally with opal is solid still.
My Opinion- Man cannot Create=Man can only make. For me to CREATE is to make/bring into existence without anything to begin with. Make- to use materials to form to ones desire. just my opinion-just saying.
Pin fire is not rare.
why do you say this? any supporting evidence to back this up... in ethiopian opal, it is very uncommon
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