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Treated Opals - The Vendor Tricks You Should Know About

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Treated Opals  The Secret Enhancer You Should Know About With the demand for vibrant gemstone growing almost daily, vendors must find new ways to push lower-quality stones into the upper echelon of the market; this has led to the rise in ‘gemstone treatments’. These are procedures that, as the name might suggest, are meant...

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...

Ring Size - What You Need to Know

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Ring Size Will One Piece of Advice Fit All? Ring sizing, at its core, is something so common yet fundamentally misunderstood.  The earliest existing rings were those found in the sacred tombs in ancient Egypt; since then, rings have been utilised by countless cultures to indicate status, law, or seen as a promise of fidelity....

How to Buy Black Opals Online

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There are so many Opals being sold online as ‘Australian Opal’ or even ‘Australian Black Opal’ the problem is that many of these products are either created Opal (A very sophisticated resin based plastic) or treated, dyed and smoked Ethiopian Opal (which is Hydrophane and prone to cracking or losing its artificially enhanced colour)...

How to Stay Safe when Buying Opal Online

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Buying Opal Online How to Keep Yourself Safe when Shopping Online  Online shopping is a past time that has been ever-increasing in popularity, and with this, comes an abundance of scams that breed mistrust among individuals just looking for a nice piece of jewellery. We have compiled a list of things to look for that...

Colour Aberration in Opal

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An Explanation of Opal Colour The explanation for why the play of colour on black opal is brighter than the play of colour on white opal is simple: because of the colour aberration, or contrast of colour.  A good way to explain this occurrence is to think of chalk on a blackboard. Blackboards are...

Discover Koroit Opal

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Koroit refers to Opal that comes from a particular area in Queensland. They are famous for their deep, strong ironstone with stunning patterns and inclusions of colour.