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How to Keep Your Jewellery Safe During the Winter Months

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When the temperature drops and the layers pile on, it's easy to forget that, like many other things, your jewellery reacts to the winter weather. Cold air, low humidity, and frequent temperature fluctuations can all affect how your rings, necklaces, and opals wear over time. To help you maintain the allure of your beloved...

Opal, the birthstone of October

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Opal, the birthstone of October What is a birthstone? Birthstones are gems that are associated with a birth month, each stone has a unique meaning and significance. Since the 5th century a.D., people connected a certain gem to a certain month or astrological alignment and thought that they would receive therapeutic benefits for wearing...

Show Love with Opal - How to Find the Perfect Gift

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Show Love with Opal How to Find the Perfect Gift Cesar's in ancient Rome gifted opals to their wives, believing the gem to represent good fortune, hope, and purity. Early Greek scholars and citizens thought that opals could bestow the owner the power of foresight. Even in recent years, there have been beliefs around...

Is Opal a Good Choice For Jewellery?

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Opal jewellery has long been a favourite with gemstone lovers from Nations all over the world since the beginning of recorded history.

The World Record for the Largest Black Opal in existence!

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Q. Is this the most expensive Opal in Australia? This is the World's largest Australian Black Opal according to the  Guinness Book of World Records! Q. Is Black Opal Expensive? Australian Opals are arguably 1000x rarer than Diamond and the worlds #1 rarest commercially available gemstone! so they are valuable...but not expensive!   Q. How much...

Thundercloud behind a rainbow: black opal

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    There are several types of opal, including black (dark) opal, boulder opal, light (white) opal, and composite opal. Opal is precious that 30 tons of Opal “dirt” produces get 1 ton of “rough Opal potch” which will ultimately produce only one Opal gemstone; however, the black opal is much rarer than any...

Is Hand Sanitiser Bad For Jewellery?

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  Recent events have brought the importance of sanitation to the forefront of our minds. In light of COVID-19, we as a society have become more aware of how infections and disease can spread, and because of this, are aiming to sanitise more things that we interact with on a daily basis.  It makes...