Several years ago we were in Coober Pedy and a bit hard up for places to find opal.

I went for a fly over on Google maps and found this open cut i knew had been started over 20 years ago but had now been completed to the opal level. We went to check and sure enough it had been abandoned so we had a scratch around for a few days, and here are some of the results in a quick video! Shows opening up, digging in the opal level, some of the stunning precious opal kingstones, and of course, the finished one of a kind pieces of beautiful Australian opal jewelry that resulted. 

 

 

 

In this flashback to February this year (2021) We show grabs of finding and digging out rough opal and some of the finished pieces and jewellery we eventually made out of it.
Almost always fun, full of hope, and tenacity. With every new morning opal is everywhere! Never give up…

Towards the end of the video you can see a handful of doublets.There are a couple that were made specifically with the opal from the pocket we found at the beginning, and subsequently end up in the ring that is the subject of the video. Just to clarify, as it is a bit hard to follow the course of the stones through the video, epecially when they essentially turn into 'black opal' albeit, doublets..

In this video I select, shape, cut, polish and set a stone we mined on the Old 15 Mile opal field of Coober Pedy Australia about a year or so ago. This piece is set in 14 karat solid yellow gold and was a custom order, very rare these days!