Opal

[Eu_citzen]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a weakness for opals?

I for one do, I perfer to cut and fix my opals myself; some examples of my work below.
One of them was set in 925 Silver by a friend. (silver heart)
One of them is for sale on opal auctions. ("Blue heart")

Some examples of my work:

[Cappy Z.]

I think Felinepeachy would just l o v e an Opal or more....

[River Rat]

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a weakness for opals?

The Feline Puddy cat does...don't let her see this

RR

[marinedad]

my wife loves opals, i like the black ones.

[Felinepeachy]

The opal I received from Cappy is spectacular and I love it as is!!! I look at it all the time outside in the light. Plus, Cappy held it in his hands so its even more special

[Cappy Z.]

The opal I received from Cappy is spectacular and I love it as is!!! I look at it all the time outside in the light. Plus, Cappy held it in his hands so its even more special

..and Cappy also wiped his grand daughters butt when she made poopies and said, "Grandpa I need some help.."

[Felinepeachy]

The opal I received from Cappy is spectacular and I love it as is!!! I look at it all the time outside in the light. Plus, Cappy held it in his hands so its even more special

..and Cappy also wiped his grand daughters butt when she made poopies and said, "Grandpa I need some help.."

Yeah, but surely you've washed them since then

[bootybay]

My favorite is the fire opal..

[Shortstack]

Some of the very finest Fire Opal in the world is found in Australia.

[Eu_citzen]

those are so pretty.....but still not the Gem I received from Cappy in the mail....I have searched high and low for one like it...does anyone know what kind of stone emits it's own light?...sort of like you see in the inside of the beautiful Opal...but much brighter.

Try Spectrolite.

[Eu_citzen]

Some of the very finest Fire Opal in the world is found in Australia.

Shortstack, Fire opal is generally used for opals of Volcanic origin...
Ethopia and Mexico are known for their Fire opal.
Australia has opal in sediments.


Cappy, did you send Feline a Ethopian opal?

[Felinepeachy]

Here's mine

[Eu_citzen]

Feline, quite nice.

Do you know if its ethopian or Australian?
Kinda reminds of WELO opal..

[Felinepeachy]

I think it's Floridian

[Eu_citzen]

Some rough opal then..


Boulder opal rough:


Maybe I should get some more pics of my better rocks..

[Shortstack]

Some of the very finest Fire Opal in the world is found in Australia.

Shortstack, Fire opal is generally used for opals of Volcanic origin...
Ethopia and Mexico are known for their Fire opal.
Australia has opal in sediments.
Cappy, did you send Feline a Ethopian opal?

Eu citizen:
The title "fire" opal that I used was in reference to the white opaque opal with the gold looking flecks that reflect a lot of light when the stone is formed and polished into a cab. The more flecks in the stone equalled more "fire"; and the higher the quality. The name had nothing to do with HOW the opal was formed. That experience I had was in Vietnam at an on base hobby shop where the person running the place helped us. He said the reflecting flecks gave the opal the look of internal fire and that was how it got it's name.

[Eu_citzen]

Some of the very finest Fire Opal in the world is found in Australia.

Shortstack, Fire opal is generally used for opals of Volcanic origin...
Ethopia and Mexico are known for their Fire opal.
Australia has opal in sediments.
Cappy, did you send Feline a Ethopian opal?

Eu citizen:
The title "fire" opal that I used was in reference to the white opaque opal with the gold looking flecks that reflect a lot of light when the stone is formed and polished into a cab. The more flecks in the stone equalled more "fire"; and the higher the quality. The name had nothing to do with HOW the opal was formed. That experience I had was in Vietnam at an on base hobby shop where the person running the place helped us. He said the reflecting flecks gave the opal the look of internal fire and that was how it got it's name.

Shortstack,
Fire does refer to the display of colour.
However fire opal does refer to a reddish to orange body tone. Google it.
Fire opal mainly comes from Ethopia, Mexico and a few other places.

That's the experience I have while studying gemmology.

[Nashoba]

The Mrs. and I LOVE going opal hunting....We have some very nice ones as well. The only problem with some of them is that they are still "wet" opals, and only good for specimens. Virgin Valley Nevada is where we go and we love the blacks the most, but they are a bit harder to find of course.
Beautiful stones you have there!

~Nash~

[Ozzygold]

Some nice pics on this post, I am an opal lover myself, the nearest opal fields for me are a 10 hour drive away, but I am going next year for sure! Didn't know Ms Peach was into rocks?

[Eu_citzen]

Ozzy,
Sounds awesome! I would love to see the opal fields myself some day.
Don't forget the camera.