Unset or unfinished opals

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About Us
The store was set up as an outpost to the opal
mines in Lightning Ridge. A place for miners,
cutters, and dealers to meet, exchange news, to
buy and sell opal. See thousands of Opal jewelry
pieces, Stunning and genuine Australian opal
stones. International perpetual guarantee. 40
years experience in opal.
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The Old Opal Miners Hut Australia
Opal has often been described as the worlds
most colorful gemstone This website brings to
you, displays of opal stones jewelry second to
none in the world. There is nothing more
exciting than walking into a store with lots of
bright colorful trinkets in many varieties. This
experience can be had online right here at
opalmine.  
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The Old Opal Miners Hut Australia
The  shop was based on similar underground black,
white (crystal) and boulder opal displays at
Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy, and Queensland
outback opal fields of Australia. The store was
totally unique, featuring an opal cave with
chunks of rough boulder and other types of opal
protruding from the wall. This was contrasted
with luxurious showcases filled with all
varieties of fascinating opals both unset and
assembled into pendants, rings, bracelets,
earrings along with a variety of jewelry for
guys. Opal cuff links, Tie tacks, Tie bars, Bolas
and belt buckles.
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The Old Opal Miners Hut Australia
The  shop was based on similar underground black,
white (crystal) and boulder opal displays at
Lightning Ridge, Coober Pedy, and Queensland
outback opal fields of Australia. The store was
totally unique, featuring an opal cave with
chunks of rough boulder and other types of opal
protruding from the wall. This was contrasted
with luxurious showcases filled with all
varieties of fascinating opals both unset and
assembled into pendants, rings, bracelets,
earrings along with a variety of jewelry for
guys. Opal cuff links, Tie tacks, Tie bars, Bolas
and belt buckles.
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Opal Jewelry Store Online
The store is online since 1996 for the world to
see. The wonders of modern technology is giving
the public a birds eye view of opal. Here
at opalmine.com,  you can analyse each
stone. Opal colors and patterns are many and
varied. At opalmine.com you will be able to take
a good look at them in all their varieties from
mine run rough opal, rough rubbed opal, cut and
polished gems, along with opal settings such as
pendant, rings, earrings, bracelets, earrings,
cuff links, tie tacks and many more.  Feel free
to ask questions or add your comments to the
blog at the bottom of each page.
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Opal History
Opal is a mineraloid of sand. It is the national
gemstone of Australia. The internal structure of
precious opal makes it diffract light and
depending on the conditions in which it is
formed, it can take on many colors. We humans are
gifted with the knack for design and
creativity. We look for ways to enhance the
beauty of everything around us. Opal history in
Australia is often related to the finding of
other gemstones and minerals.
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Refining of Opal
Modern opal history involves the processing of
the stone. Opal needs no such refinement. What
you see is what you get. You dont have to facet
it, enhance it, put it through a machine to
refine it.  The color is there, staring at you
from the sandstone wall of an underground man
cave. It is not like calling out to you, Im
here, come and get me out of here. Put me where I
belong. In a gold pendant, enhancing the neck of
a beautiful woman! Wish it were that easy. But
only 5 of the Opal found is precious.
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Opal Facts
If you never take the opal ring off, be
warned that after a few years of doing the
gardening, your stone is likely to lose its
sheen. And since most of you dont have the
luxury of being able to go into the workshop and
bring it back to its original luster, you would
be wise to treat your investment with a bit more
respect. Sure, you can wear it most of the time.
But its better to take it off if there is a
chance you will knock it against something hard
or abrasive. Keep in mind that, opal is a rarer
stone than most gemstones so jewelers often dont
get the chance to work with it, and hence dont
have the knowledge of the stone to treat it
properly in the manufacturing process.
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Opal Facts
If you never take the opal ring off, be
warned that after a few years of doing the
gardening, your stone is likely to lose its
sheen. And since most of you dont have the
luxury of being able to go into the workshop and
bring it back to its original luster, you would
be wise to treat your investment with a bit more
respect. Sure, you can wear it most of the time.
But its better to take it off if there is a
chance you will knock it against something hard
or abrasive. Keep in mind that, opal is a rarer
stone than most gemstones so jewelers often dont
get the chance to work with it, and hence dont
have the knowledge of the stone to treat it
properly in the manufacturing process.
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Rough Black Opal
Rough Black Opal Is Often Sold In The Form Of
Rubs. The areas that contain valueless potch or
ironstone are removed, leaving only the valuable
part of the stone. This saves time and money for
the Opal cutter.
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Rough Opal Boulders
Boulder opal stones are cleaned out of these
large chunks and mainly sold as rubs rather
than mine run rough. This saves a lot of heavy
freight expense and time searching for color
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Black Unset Opal
Black opals that are not set in jewelry for folks
who either have a ring or pendant that needs a
stone, or if you just want to get your own
jeweler to make something for you. Most black
opals are not calibrated to make sure none of the
precious color is lost. They can come in oval
shape but also square, rectangle and free-form
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Opal Unset Triplet
Opal triplets come in a variety of standard sizes
designed to be set into cast sterling silver or
gold findings or settings. They come in different
grades of brilliance and are priced according to
the play of color. Because opal triplets are
calibrated to standard sizes, its possible to
order findings or settings with your triplets so
that you can set them yourself into mainly
pendants either silver or gold plated.
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Buy Opal Jewelry
Opal jewelry jewellery as the British spell it,
like rings, pendants, necklaces make ideal
fashion accessories for any occasion. Opals are
found around the inland areas of Australia. Opals
are a part of the cultural history of these
regions. Many of the old opal mines are not
producing anymore.  Fields such as White Cliffs
and Andamooka still have some coming out of the
ground but not extensive.
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Classy Opal Rings
Historically and in the fashion world, rings are
by far the most popular form of jewelry and there
is no exception to this in the opal industry. 
Design tastes vary from one person to the other
and from one country to another. Some folks like
intricate designs that feature the metal with the
stone, and some prefer a very plain presentation
that makes the opal stone itself stand out.
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Opal Pendants The Next Contender
And it must be said that its a lot easier to buy
a pendant for someone than a ring because of the
obvious finger size problem. Of course here at
the Opalmine site there is an excellent facility
for arriving at the correct finger size but even
so, pendants dont have to be sized and there is
more demand for them on this site because of this.
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How to choose your Opal?
Its good to know the facts about opals, because,
unlike most gemstones, opal can be presented in a
number of different ways that make them either
less or more expensive. As well as this, in
recent times very clever imitations have been
made that you need to know about. To help you
understand these details so that your investment
of time and money is an informed one, and you can
know how to obtain and preserve it. Opal
facts are important to know, just like the truth
about anything we acquire, whether its a house, a
car, a boat, or indeed a wife or husband. Get to
know em first!
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Contact Us
Opalmine.com (petren products pty ltd)   Phone
and Fax [phone]   Email peter_at_opalmine.com
  Address Box 512 Coolangatta. Qld,
4225   Hours of Operation 9 am to 5 pm
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