5 years of OPAL IN THE WALL!! Highlight reels from our last half decade of Coober Pedy opal hunting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Some of our most opportune moments of opal in the wall, we love to re-live them to spur us on to DO IT AGAIN! #australianopal #opalmining #cooberpedy #outbackopalhunters
Amazing finds, and that colour is crazy. You’ll be having just as much fun cutting them too. Nice work guys. 🤪👍
Yes mate, most all long gone now, keeps us frothing to keep scratching!
Beautiful Opal ❤,congrats guys
Thanks! It's sooo much fun! Gotta do it again! 🤞🙏
Prime hopium. Im still hoping to get up to my block at Coober this year but may have to settle on buying some rough to sooth the need. Keep up the good videos
Thanks for watching mate! We are taking offers at opalauctions.com/stores/graceopal on some nice parcels.
We’ve had quite a drought of mining videos lately but hopefully some new adventures with the warmer weather!
@@Opaldigger maybe you can do an educational video on my block before I develop it . Thanks for the link I will check it out
“That’s good telly” is the the only way to describe the video😂. Thanks for sharing!
Haha, yep Shannons favourite line. Hope we make a LOT more ‘good telly’ lol.
Tried to click like but it would not work ??
Great find guy's, you got some absolute rippers there.
Next stop ✋️ maybe Justin ? Black rock opal ?
Good luck ,hope your rewarded with a lot more opal for all the hard work you've put in .
Cheers 🍻 Les. UK 🇬🇧.
@@lesliecrowther7004 Thanks for watching Les!
We don’t get a lot of black on the Coober Pedy fields but our mission is to show that light, white and crystal IS the new black! Haha..
There are no words…… great to see the highlights, makes those tough days worth while. Thanks for sharing. Just off to book my flight to Coober now 😄
See you there! 😅
Nice and thicky.
Now coming to you with the opal hunter hype 😂😂😂 . Great work never gets old
@@darrenunderwood2799 Haha, yep! Hey at least we aren’t pretending to push the missus car into a cut ‘accidentally’ now THAT’s hype!
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BEST opal video EVER! Great idea for an edit. Cheers!
Haha, cheers mate! Hope we can do a lot more juicy opal in the wall vids before we’re finished!
I wish 😂😂😂
Sweet 👏✌️👍
Imagen if you got one of those plates out almost intact it might be worth the time 🤔
@@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied once you’ve got the bug its a never ending itch that needs scratching. Lol. Thanks for watching Bro!
What they are pulling from these walls is worth far more than gold than you can imagine..
nice. Now, make the five hour video of all the hard work, and failures, it took to get these beauties.
@@ThatOpalGuy Haha! Yes! Most of these are clips from existing videos on our channel that go into some of the detail you mentioned, only even a long video rarely touches on the many, many YEARS of struggle, disappointment and failure, literally decades of learning and studying the fields and mining methods. Not to over egg it! 😅
@@Opaldigger Thanks for all your efforts. without you guys I wouldnt get to cut the opals I do cut(though nothing quite as nice as most of that stuff. eventually.)
Its thick and its cheesy😅 well done guys!
🤣 Cheers mate!
Treasure 😳
Some nice gear hey!
I still believe Ethiopian opals one of the best. Australian is to over rated
@@KeithDee-pu8kz I love Ethiopian material as it has launched opal into the stratosphere in terms of public awareness. It makes huge cabs but the hydrophane (porosity) absorbs oils and contaminants often leading to yellowing over time that is irreversible, to date it resists treatment to prevent this.
Australian opal displays a much denser, tighter, often brighter play of colour that suits smaller jewelry, is non hydrophane and is for the best part, stable for the long term with many fields offering rare heirloom, investment opal unsurpassed in quality and beauty. Thanks for watching!
@@Opaldigger Resists treatment? I clean mine in acetone. Never had a issue. Plus there's a method to treating Crystal opal so it doesn't shatter once it's dried out and being cut. It's an excepted treatment in GIA's eyes like emeralds being treated with oils. But the epoxy resin is expensive so you'd want to follow the instructions step by step and hope you get it the first time because you'll sure be discouraged from doing it again. Especially if you lose a pretty expensive specimen to start along with the time and material. I like all kinds of opal but I cut and polish them and Ethiopian are just easier to work with for me and cheaper in the long run when you're living in the US I'm not going to pay out of the a$$ for something that I'm taking a chance on. Although I would boulder opal. I love that stuff. Anyway to each his own I guess.
@@KeithDee-pu8kz Thanks mate, that’s interesting to know.
I would have cut more Welo material I reckon but I’m an old school dry sander which of course is fatal to hydrophane as it heats the stone up and cracks it immediately.
I do agree a lot of Australian opal is overrated, that’s why we try to focus on actual wearable beauty, not just brand. Although we love the brand Aussie opal! I hope Welo continues to increase in value and esteem too, the annual global spend on jewelry is around 12 billion at the minute, I reckon that’s enough for opal from all over the world to keep ticking!