"Black Opal is incredibly hard to find, so why is it so expensive?" I'm no Opal expert, but something tells me that your answer has a bit to do with the first part of that statement...
I think they meant the question was getting at more at the point of,”why is it considered valuable for a small group of people who’ve actually shown interest in a rock?” The wording wasn’t the best but I knew what they were trying to convey. Also, their show likes to present RHETORICAL questions to the viewers
@@Falicity345 Boy oh boy, I bet you are a hoot at parties... 😂 I know what they were trying to convey. I've seen plenty of their videos. I was just trying to crack a joke. That's all. 🤷♂️😂 I appreciate your explanation though!
I used to work in the wholesale jewelry industry. I still remember one day an opal dealer came into the store with loose stones. he had a lot of inventory but after awhile he said that he had one special stone that was one of the best he had ever seen. he took out the paper packet, unfolded and I swear the stone looked like viewing the earth from space. blew me away. at the time it was 10,000 dollars a carat (1987 dollars wholesale). it was about 5 or 6 carats the size of a medium marble. still sticks with me today.
My grandmother thought of getting a gift for my mother, her daughter-in-law. She found this gorgeous opal ring. But she liked it so much that she decided to keep it for herself but then said my mother would get it in her will. My grandmother was such a character.😆
I hope he makes his first million this year. Sounds like he's got his heart in it not just making the profits off of his workers he's actually doing it and leading the way when he mines and is trying so hard. Love to see it
@@Varcinius If you are so smart, you would realize that jewelers do not refine the jewels, the jewel cutters do, and the jewel cutters DON'T get paid that much (around 40k dollars). Also, your comment states that miners should become jewellers if they want to get rich, but you have to realize that not everyone can become an artisan.
My Grandmother got a lightning ridge black "fire" opal from the late 19th century. It was among the biggest and certainly best ever seen. What a shame that the jeweller accidentally broke it when cleaning it, but replaced it with a top notch piece of shite he had on hand. My poor gullible mother didn't want to cause a fuss, so never said anything, until a few years later she put it on, and the family immediately asked, "what the heck happened to your opal?" She relayed the story and how the jeweller, assured her the replacement was even better than her original. I wanted to have a quiet chat with him but was sworn to leave it alone, as though they did not have faith in my diplomatic intentions. I do so have a soft spot for businessmen that exploit the elderly, soft as lead.
For anyone curious if you have expensive jewellery INSURE IT and if you take it to be cleaned, take it to a reputable and INSURED jeweller. Have a receipt provided and always ALWAYS if you suspect anything is wrong with the service or item you must get police involved so you can claim any damages under your insurance or theirs.
I reckon he didn't break it at all and pulled it out and re-sold it for a gigantic amount of money. Jewelers have been known to do that. My father wouldn't let my mother take her jewels to regular jewelers because this had happened to his mother in the past and it really made an impact on him. I think my grandmother had a gigantic emerald, one of the last really spectacular ones to come out of a certain mine in Colombia. She asked to get it re-set in a different ring and a few weeks later the jeweler called amd said he accidentally "shattered the emerald into a heap of tiny shards" he replaced it with one of the stones in his "personal" collection. Five years later my grandfather got a picture from another friend of his asking if this looked like the stone my grandmother used to have and guess what, he had bought it from the same jeweler that had "shattered" my grandmothers stone. It's a real pity how greedy people can be.
it really is, there are synthetic Opals, but man does Opal look really nice in person, and knowing how it came to be, and what it took to get it, it's really a stone to be admired. what they didn't mention in the video is that the layer isn't actually that big, so one wrong cut or polish and a $241k stone can turn into $0, if you look at the 241 carat stone she's holding you can see that the "precious" layer isn't through out the stone.
Diamonds are a con. They're no where near as rare as a lot of gemstones and shouldn't cost what they do. You can thank the De Beers "a diamond is forever" ad campaign. It forever changed how people think about diamonds. It could be the best ad campaign ever. They absolutely created a market that didn't exist before that campaign. Now they control almost the entire market and artificially inflate the price of diamonds.
@@mydogniko Facts. When I was a kid I remember watching a doco on the amount of diamonds that are stored in this vault storage thingy in Russia. Apparently there are so much diamonds stored there that if they were to flood the market with them it would render diamonds worthless. Crazy.
@@edgewizz862 very true. I remember reading a Clive Cussler book where theres a character that is the head of a fictional company that is essentially what De Beers is in real life. That fictional counterpart bought up all the ruby, sapphire, and other rare gem mines and then flooded the market with all their diamonds. Because they owned almost the entire market it made diamonds worthless overnight and then the gems that are actually rarer than diamonds shot up in value. Of course that was a fictional book but the premise is/could be very real. De Beers owns (as recently as early-mid 2000s) 85% of the diamond market. Theyre only as valuable as De Beers wants them to be. They've masterfully turned a semi rare gemstone into the most desired gem in the world. Quite remarkable and ludacris at the same time that a damn slogan/campaign as simple as 'diamonds are forever' created a massive demand for a gem nobody really paid much attention to before.
Just so you know diamonds are worthless and a scam. They are not rare at all, one big mafia has millions stacked in storages and control when to put more on the market.
A tip from a geologist: If you want to have black opal but doesn't have the budget, try looking for labradorite or bornite. It is much cheaper and is also colorful like a rainbow.
My mother had a beautiful fossilized shell opal necklace. Sadly it was stolen a few years ago, but it's so unique that my mother says she would know that its her if she ever saw anyone else wearing it. I still hate the people who stole it. Like, I wish they had stolen the same amount in money rather than this necklace that meant so much to my mom. Don't steal people, please.
I love opal because each specimen has a wide range of unique blemishes and imperfections. But these are considered to add to its value. Just like people, a metaphor for how our imperfections make us unique and valuable. :) PS- If you have opals, try never to wear them in the pool! They are porous like pearls and will absorb chemicals from water they are exposed to.
Haha, opal cant mix well with sweats. I bought 1 necklace made of opal for 1,500 aud when i was traveling to australia , it is for my aunt who raise me. She end up mad and she said this is not worth it value. For me it is boosted price jewel that does not match its value, still bought it since inexperience or i personally dont see it valuable as other gems.
It's not actually about the size. Two opals- one the size of a loaf of bread, the other the size of a pencil cut in half were both priced at about 3 million dollars. It's about the colors reflected more than the size of the opal. That's why opal is such a weird thing to buy, you can also have opal fossils (fossils made out of opal) and that can raise the price too. But I know what you meant and I hope he gets a big sale too.
The beautiful black opal has always fascinated me thank you for showing, such a gorgeous gem. My ancestors The Yuwaalayaay people of Lightning ridge have passed down Dreamtime stories about the Opal there. Literally a rainbow in a rock. I love it.
There's a whole underground town called Coober Pedy where people live in old opal mines, and its still their main industry. They have underground churches, hotels, and their homes are actually pretty beautiful. Whenever they need a new room, they just dig one out.
as a gemstone collector, i enjoy opals the most due to their color difference and vibrancy. i own 4 australian black opals with mutlple colors and sheens all around inside the stone and i love the gem deep deep down. im not rich. you too can start a gemstone collection by buying loose gemstones that are cut and sold in 50-75 caret bags for $50 or so. you never know what you will get but you will also expand your knowledge on gems and rocks, not to mention the amount of appreciation for their forms. at face value i think it's boring, but once you get into it further, it can be very neat.
I have a black opal necklace made of many different opal shards from lightning ridge, it is absolutely stunning. People always notice it when I wear it
this is not why i am an opal seller, im in it for the passion and beauty around the gem its self and the community along side it. australian black opal is truly the mother of all gems!
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@@nutsandbolts1264 alot of the time a jeweler will have their prices set after taking in to account fees aside from the value of the gems visual aspects, including its rarity and costs of aquirement (alot of the time the jeweller is the 5th or 6th person to buy the gem) and then the largest fee they take into acount is the overheads for the shop, EG: rent, employees, craftsmanship and material costs. this doesnt excuse the price some jewellers set, thats for sure....
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Fun fact: similar effect to black opal is achieved by loading normal opals inside of the nuclear reactor core. Radiation makes it change it properties. It's commonly done inside of the NCBJ (Narodowe centrum badań jądrowych ) in Poland
My husband gave me a wedding band that was inlayed all around with black opal. It was stunning. Unfortunately, it was also too fragile for everyday wear, as we eventually discovered. After a couple of years, about half the opal in it had chipped or cracked and fallen out. I’ve stuck with a gold band ever since.
Whoever sold you that band with opals in it should have told you how fragile it is! I worked at a fine jewelry store in Dallas Tx. We always warned buyers hiw sodt it was!
@@jeanetteshawredden5643 I wish I had known how fragile it was, but since I wasn’t the one who bought it, I never even spoke to a jeweler about it. Ah, well.
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I worked for a jewelry manufacturer about 35 yrs ago, a customer sent us a packet of black opal to set in several pieces, I inquired about the opal and he sent me a 3 x 5 oval stone, which I purchased, I don’t remember how much he charged me, but it was beautiful, I set it in a necklace. I miss working in jewelry, I always was buying something, but at that time gold was only 250-325 an ounce, so it was affordable.
Opals are so beautiful, and black opal are just amazing and stunning. I love opal stones so much, opals really are magical!!!! It's just a shame it really is hard to find them and it can negatively impact those who find these gems
mate, no negative impacts on those that find them in Australia, which is where the vast majority of opals are found! Try a different gem for that story!
@@mehere8038Im not really sure what youre trying to say, but what I meant was that people can get hurt trying to get to them. Such as the caves probably closing in on them, and other horrible mishaps that could take place when attaining them.
@@-Secret Very rare with opals in Australia. Opals don't lend themselves to industrial level production, so it tends to be individuals, who tend to take care of their own safety. Coober Pedy is the main opal centre of Australia (although for white opal, not black) & people literally live in the "mines" there, they have electricity & plumbing & everything a normal house would have, except they build their houses underground, so as to avoid the heat & they can afford to do so, because excavating for the house finds enough opals to pay for the construction/excavation. There's churches, pubs, hotels, everything you can imagine found underground in "mines" in Coober Pedy & people can literally dig for opals while sitting on their lounge watching tv in their living room, so again, wrong gem to be talking about that with. Lots of gems & metals put people in danger, but Australian opals are really not one of those
Wish they had shown more of the actual industrial process of extracting the opal clay, loading it onto a truck for processing, and "puddling it" like the miner described. I guess it makes a more human-relatable video to show an guy chipping at a rock wall with a pickaxe.
I'm less surprised at the actual opal and more surprised that trees can grow underground edit: no, this isn't a joke, i was actually confused as to why there's logs underground
I had bought a pair of Black Opal necklace for my ex on V-day 2 years back. It was a little over 10K USD back then. But, she didn't believe the price, and refused it then asked me to return it (well, we were kinda in an argument for weeks at the time, maybe that's why she didn't take the present). Even now, I still keep it with me. LMAO
There is a place in Montana I think where you can pay a daily fee to dig for precious gems, and keep whatever you find. Some people have found stones worth thousands of dollars after just a short while of digging less than a foot underground. I think that would be a cool experience.
She probably was able to make that herself for practice. Sometimes the way a gem is cut isn't quality to get sent to someone but definitely good enough to practice on. Or it was a gift xDD
@@piink_lace bussing is AAVE its used to describe something tasting nice, you can’t eat an Opal therefore it can’t taste nice so calling it “bussin” is misuse of that word
@@mgr.chelsea Eh, probably doesn't really matter that much. Normal English probably has a bunch of misuse. Like how most people use the word irony/ironic the wrong way. But it's kind of just accepted a life of its own at this point. Same with literally, among others...
@@svampebob007 Blue opals can have green in them, Ethiopian Opals are another multicolored one, Fire opals, White Opals- There's too many varieties for that to be true x'DDD
@@thatrainbowdudeplayz2801 it had no colour. It was just the stuff they hope to find backing thin bands of crystalline opal which, with a little bit of luck, will make it a gem.
Yeah 👂 hearing the glass sound coming from the wall face when the pick scrapped over the sand stone, finding a black knobby.. (Exciting SOUND that) Woohoo 🥳 😀 Seeing no colour the woohoo 🎉 delights start fizzling away But the miner knows common black opal is not commonly found.. finding black trace without colour are still awesome signs he is in the right place 🥳🎉🎶
its great at the annual markets when local opal miners sell off the scraps/chips. there is nothing more fun than taking home a back of cheap chips and processing them and revealing their flash
Not necessarily, only one type of Opal is considered volatile in the sense it breaks easily, Black Opal on the other hand can be cut with a saw fairly easily
In local Indonesian, we call it"Kalimaya" and "Jarong", and it's cheaper than Australian Black Opal, but has the same beauty in my opinion. Just search "Kalimaya Banten" and you will find amazing pieces of gemstone and you can get it started in 5 USD.
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Curious fact about Lightning Ridge, it’s official population is less than 2000 but it’s local supermarkets and other essential stores sell enough products for a much higher population. Presumably this is due to a large number of people living “off the grid” in the area.
when we were searching for my quinceaños ring, nothing caught my attention I was 14 at the time but I was already into gems, and seen the variety that existed out there I refused to settle so easily on something more common like a diamond got to a store one day and as soon as I saw that play of color I fell in love. Mom tried to convince me maybe not an opal- asked me several times if I truly liked it, if I didn't liked any of the emerals or amethysts- don't get me wrong they were pretty! just... not an opal been 6 years, I still love my ring with all my heart also it was cheaper than the other stones 😂 so extra points for that!
This is super fascinating! My engagement ring has a black opal instead of a diamond, which is perfect because opal is my favorite stone. And the best part of it is, it was his mom's first engagement ring before her husband bought her a new one when they renewed their vows. It also has two blue topaz on each side and thats my birth stone.....literally meant to be 🥰
It's all so unreasonable to me, the concept of jewelry as a whole. If we're talking about sheer beauty, there's so much more of it in the most basic of arts & crafts. I mean simple glass allows for so many amazing pieces of art.
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I'm learning that everything expensive is so because it is mined or gathered at the expense of people. Very good reason to live on the cheap. Thank you for the information.
My dad lives in Lightning Ridge!! Miners like to not disclose how much they have found over the years because they don't want to be targets for theft/dishonesty. I was told a water divining rod can give one a favourable sign as to the presence of opal.
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Such a beautiful gem. IMO nothing else really compares to Australian Opal. Even Koriot Boulder Opal is priceless. A Diamond has nothing to compare. All it does is refract the colors. Opals make the colors.
There is a RUclips channel called Black Opal Direct where the guy buys and cuts (I never understood why they say cut, the process is really grind and polish - but anyway) the stones. It's mildly addictive and often interesting.
Opal has always been close to my heart. My mom, dad, and even my new & only dog have this as a birthstone. all born in October. I hope to get it in my wedding ring!
I guess I'm glad people are doing this, since I love opal. But watching this, I can't help but feel like choosing an opal mining career takes either an insane opal fanatic or an idiot.
Yeah, I was able to take a trip down to Australia and on my trip I was able to find an Opal dealer, and I was able to look at a large variety of opals , It was quite fascinating , And I was able to get a really good explanation of the miming proces , And I was able to buy a really nice stone as a gift for a family member, Talk about a a really nice surprise; I was really worried about the contents of my luggage though, However that wasn’t any problem , I returned with all of my gifts, And Australia was a wonderful place to visit, Even though it was about a 20 hour flight from Los Angeles, My doctor was able to give me a Prescription script for several sleeping tablets so that I could snooze on both the very long flight over there as well as the flight back home, Talk about being worn out by the time the plane landed, However all of the people in Australia were very nice, Including the Australian officials , Everything was nice 👍
If worried about bringing opals or meds of anything into Australia, always just tick "yes" in the appropriate box on the passenger declaration card & you won't get into trouble for anything, customs will just check what you've got & in the vast majority of cases approve it. If you tick no though & do have something you were supposed to tick yes for, you'll be in serious trouble! Australian customs is kinda the reverse of the rest of the world in that regard & glad you enjoyed Australia :))
"Black Opal is incredibly hard to find, so why is it so expensive?"
I'm no Opal expert, but something tells me that your answer has a bit to do with the first part of that statement...
True
That’s what I thought 😅
@@LuisGarcia-ps3mx same xD
I think they meant the question was getting at more at the point of,”why is it considered valuable for a small group of people who’ve actually shown interest in a rock?” The wording wasn’t the best but I knew what they were trying to convey. Also, their show likes to present RHETORICAL questions to the viewers
@@Falicity345 Boy oh boy, I bet you are a hoot at parties... 😂
I know what they were trying to convey. I've seen plenty of their videos. I was just trying to crack a joke. That's all. 🤷♂️😂 I appreciate your explanation though!
Opal is very expensive, until you have it appraised at that pawn shop in Vegas.
“I dunno man, best I can do is offer you $5 bucks”
@@mikyles.1830 lmao Rick is a joke
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"Best I can do is a box of donuts, but I'm gonna have trouble selling it and packaging, and it may be a loss if it takes to long to sell"
I used to work in the wholesale jewelry industry. I still remember one day an opal dealer came into the store with loose stones. he had a lot of inventory but after awhile he said that he had one special stone that was one of the best he had ever seen. he took out the paper packet, unfolded and I swear the stone looked like viewing the earth from space. blew me away. at the time it was 10,000 dollars a carat (1987 dollars wholesale). it was about 5 or 6 carats the size of a medium marble. still sticks with me today.
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Have you seen uncut gems? Good movie about basketball and black opals.
The Miner should enchant his pickaxe for faster mining. Use a diamond pickaxe too.
Plus drink potion of haste and swiftness and for the pickaxe put efficiency V and unbreakable
Dont forget fortune III
@@thelemonqueen_ ye
Loot 3 enchantment would help too
Gotta get a beacon with haste 2.
My grandmother thought of getting a gift for my mother, her daughter-in-law. She found this gorgeous opal ring. But she liked it so much that she decided to keep it for herself but then said my mother would get it in her will. My grandmother was such a character.😆
lmao! she's a queen!
Queen..🔥
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Yes, my grandmother has passed and my mother has the opal ring now. But my mother was moved that my grandmother kept her word.
Nice i wish i had a grandma
@@leiajiang7877 lmao
I hope he makes his first million this year. Sounds like he's got his heart in it not just making the profits off of his workers he's actually doing it and leading the way when he mines and is trying so hard. Love to see it
Lies again? Heineken Booze
Jewellers are always rich as compared to miners, thus you know who gets the real value of the gems.
But jewelers do the refining
I think that is because a gem refiner has to train a lot, and have experience, it must be an highly specialized job
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@@Varcinius If you are so smart, you would realize that jewelers do not refine the jewels, the jewel cutters do, and the jewel cutters DON'T get paid that much (around 40k dollars). Also, your comment states that miners should become jewellers if they want to get rich, but you have to realize that not everyone can become an artisan.
I get high in my RUclips videos for a living 😂🙏
Jewelers: "We sell it for $10,000 per carat. But if you want to sell it to us we'll take it for $100 per carat."
@@chrisporter9397 holy shit racist much
@@lealta1481 yes, thanks
@@chrisporter9397 at least you own it
Huh
@@nathaniel8766 Ever buy jewelry and try to sell it back? The jewelers will give you an offer so bad it's insulting.
My Grandmother got a lightning ridge black "fire" opal from the late 19th century. It was among the biggest and certainly best ever seen. What a shame that the jeweller accidentally broke it when cleaning it, but replaced it with a top notch piece of shite he had on hand. My poor gullible mother didn't want to cause a fuss, so never said anything, until a few years later she put it on, and the family immediately asked, "what the heck happened to your opal?" She relayed the story and how the jeweller, assured her the replacement was even better than her original. I wanted to have a quiet chat with him but was sworn to leave it alone, as though they did not have faith in my diplomatic intentions. I do so have a soft spot for businessmen that exploit the elderly, soft as lead.
Probably didn’t even drop it, just took it
Lead is actually quite soft compared to other metals.
Hopefully as toxic, too. Wouldn't want him surviving the chat.
For anyone curious if you have expensive jewellery INSURE IT and if you take it to be cleaned, take it to a reputable and INSURED jeweller. Have a receipt provided and always ALWAYS if you suspect anything is wrong with the service or item you must get police involved so you can claim any damages under your insurance or theirs.
I reckon he didn't break it at all and pulled it out and re-sold it for a gigantic amount of money. Jewelers have been known to do that. My father wouldn't let my mother take her jewels to regular jewelers because this had happened to his mother in the past and it really made an impact on him. I think my grandmother had a gigantic emerald, one of the last really spectacular ones to come out of a certain mine in Colombia. She asked to get it re-set in a different ring and a few weeks later the jeweler called amd said he accidentally "shattered the emerald into a heap of tiny shards" he replaced it with one of the stones in his "personal" collection. Five years later my grandfather got a picture from another friend of his asking if this looked like the stone my grandmother used to have and guess what, he had bought it from the same jeweler that had "shattered" my grandmothers stone. It's a real pity how greedy people can be.
Sounds like Black Opal is what the “diamond” really claims to be.
it really is, there are synthetic Opals, but man does Opal look really nice in person, and knowing how it came to be, and what it took to get it, it's really a stone to be admired.
what they didn't mention in the video is that the layer isn't actually that big, so one wrong cut or polish and a $241k stone can turn into $0, if you look at the 241 carat stone she's holding you can see that the "precious" layer isn't through out the stone.
Diamonds are a con. They're no where near as rare as a lot of gemstones and shouldn't cost what they do. You can thank the De Beers "a diamond is forever" ad campaign. It forever changed how people think about diamonds. It could be the best ad campaign ever. They absolutely created a market that didn't exist before that campaign. Now they control almost the entire market and artificially inflate the price of diamonds.
@@mydogniko Facts. When I was a kid I remember watching a doco on the amount of diamonds that are stored in this vault storage thingy in Russia. Apparently there are so much diamonds stored there that if they were to flood the market with them it would render diamonds worthless. Crazy.
@@edgewizz862 very true. I remember reading a Clive Cussler book where theres a character that is the head of a fictional company that is essentially what De Beers is in real life. That fictional counterpart bought up all the ruby, sapphire, and other rare gem mines and then flooded the market with all their diamonds. Because they owned almost the entire market it made diamonds worthless overnight and then the gems that are actually rarer than diamonds shot up in value. Of course that was a fictional book but the premise is/could be very real. De Beers owns (as recently as early-mid 2000s) 85% of the diamond market. Theyre only as valuable as De Beers wants them to be. They've masterfully turned a semi rare gemstone into the most desired gem in the world. Quite remarkable and ludacris at the same time that a damn slogan/campaign as simple as 'diamonds are forever' created a massive demand for a gem nobody really paid much attention to before.
Just so you know diamonds are worthless and a scam. They are not rare at all, one big mafia has millions stacked in storages and control when to put more on the market.
A tip from a geologist: If you want to have black opal but doesn't have the budget, try looking for labradorite or bornite. It is much cheaper and is also colorful like a rainbow.
I searched for labradorite on RUclips and found a cult of people that think rocks give you powers
@@royalgummyworm8131 lmao😂
@@royalgummyworm8131 You didn't find it. They found you..
@@twentytwo138 Go to the video and read the comments like there is no sane person there.
@@royalgummyworm8131 I just did and it is hilarious but sad at the same time.
My mother had a beautiful fossilized shell opal necklace. Sadly it was stolen a few years ago, but it's so unique that my mother says she would know that its her if she ever saw anyone else wearing it.
I still hate the people who stole it. Like, I wish they had stolen the same amount in money rather than this necklace that meant so much to my mom. Don't steal people, please.
What if your dad stole it
Having something stolen from you teaches growth
Hate to say it, but she had it coming
@@huncho5005 how so?
Bruh why are the replies so hateful. Anyways sorry for ur loss and I hope u find it soon
I love opal because each specimen has a wide range of unique blemishes and imperfections. But these are considered to add to its value. Just like people, a metaphor for how our imperfections make us unique and valuable. :)
PS- If you have opals, try never to wear them in the pool! They are porous like pearls and will absorb chemicals from water they are exposed to.
Hi
Hhhh
only ethiopian opal no ?
@@tomarnould4621 yes only Ethiopian, Australian opal is fine, you can soak it in solvents and it wont hurt it.
The most beautiful precious, stone, on the planet bar none,!
An opal ring is definitely more beautiful than any diamond ring I've ever seen.
Well said
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@@R1L1. what
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Peep my new and only ring.......
The miners should switch Ys to see if lower levels have a higher spawn rate.
Yeah there on Y 15 not Y 12 😂😂😂
"Seemingly infinite colours"
I think my dvds will sell very well then
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Haha, opal cant mix well with sweats. I bought 1 necklace made of opal for 1,500 aud when i was traveling to australia , it is for my aunt who raise me. She end up mad and she said this is not worth it value. For me it is boosted price jewel that does not match its value, still bought it since inexperience or i personally dont see it valuable as other gems.
It’s called the sunburst pattern
@Figgy Newton No, but the Super Mario 64 explains it
I hope this guy gets a huge one and earns a million dollars. He deserves huge.
It's not actually about the size. Two opals- one the size of a loaf of bread, the other the size of a pencil cut in half were both priced at about 3 million dollars. It's about the colors reflected more than the size of the opal. That's why opal is such a weird thing to buy, you can also have opal fossils (fossils made out of opal) and that can raise the price too.
But I know what you meant and I hope he gets a big sale too.
I hope he hits big on a sports bet or something
What you think about the black people in Ethiopia. Do they deserve it?
@@ConstructiveMinds100 if they find it first, then hell yeah.
@@paint2932 i hope he finds a good heist
The beautiful black opal has always fascinated me thank you for showing, such a gorgeous gem. My ancestors The Yuwaalayaay people of Lightning ridge have passed down Dreamtime stories about the Opal there. Literally a rainbow in a rock. I love it.
I'll need to rewatch Uncut gems now
I was looking for this comment
Idk how to feel about that movie
@@WhuDhat it was a heart pumping masterpiece
@@sirtrollalot7762 too much sandler cursing for my liking But it was great story
Watch outback OPAL hunters Discovery channel. These guys find some rare opal worth a shit ton
There's a whole underground town called Coober Pedy where people live in old opal mines, and its still their main industry. They have underground churches, hotels, and their homes are actually pretty beautiful. Whenever they need a new room, they just dig one out.
Its hot af there.
Wrong, the government shut that place down and its now aboriginal land
Sounds like a Skyrim mod or something
@@JohnWick-stardawg what are you talking about? I live in South Australia and Coober Peddy is definantly still functional.
Wife:HONEY I WANT A NEW WALK IN CLOSET!!
Husband:You already have 3,
Wife:WELL START DIGGING!
as a gemstone collector, i enjoy opals the most due to their color difference and vibrancy. i own 4 australian black opals with mutlple colors and sheens all around inside the stone and i love the gem deep deep down. im not rich. you too can start a gemstone collection by buying loose gemstones that are cut and sold in 50-75 caret bags for $50 or so. you never know what you will get but you will also expand your knowledge on gems and rocks, not to mention the amount of appreciation for their forms. at face value i think it's boring, but once you get into it further, it can be very neat.
Absolutely agree!👍
On ya mate.
A gemstone far more deserving for its cost than diamonds.
I mean, diamonds can created with very very expensive technology.
@@alphariusfuze8089 yeah. Opal however, have they made a good synthetic?
@h i yeah one jeweller company found a huge cache in Africa and went YOINK and now they control the diamond market
@h i U need to study, why Diamonds are so expensive. If u don't like that's ur choice but u can't say it's worthless.
I know right?! Every opal pattern and color is unique, diamond is blant.
I have a black opal necklace made of many different opal shards from lightning ridge, it is absolutely stunning. People always notice it when I wear it
You do huh 🤔?
May you tell me your location? 🤓 I’m asking for a friend. 🤥
A show stopper piece
must have cost a fortune! lucky lad
Tell ur location... I wanna steal it😂
He is a pretty humble and simple guy.
They say you can see the whole universe in black opals, thats how old they are. - Howard Ratner
Someone who’s seen uncut gems
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to see an Uncut Gems reference.
This new minecraft update is very realistic.
When Steve starts talking
@Pro Huawei 😂😂
Minecraft caves and cliffs look so good!!!
Ikr just download xray texture pack to find minerals
Black opal has been my favorite gem for years now, it's insanely beautiful.
this is not why i am an opal seller, im in it for the passion and beauty around the gem its self and the community along side it. australian black opal is truly the mother of all gems!
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So, being completely serious, why do jewelers offer such insulting prices for rare gems like this one? (As compared to the selling price)
I Have Black Opal If You Want Contact Me
Haha oh really? Then why do you sell it, why not keep it since you love it so much?
@@nutsandbolts1264 alot of the time a jeweler will have their prices set after taking in to account fees aside from the value of the gems visual aspects, including its rarity and costs of aquirement (alot of the time the jeweller is the 5th or 6th person to buy the gem) and then the largest fee they take into acount is the overheads for the shop, EG: rent, employees, craftsmanship and material costs. this doesnt excuse the price some jewellers set, thats for sure....
Rick: I'll give you $5 for it and I'm losing money. I have to get it framed and its gonna sit in the shop forever... I'm taking all the risk
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Yep the same dumbshit line.
Rick:I will give you 0.1 for the Opal
that explains how he does the same job for 45 years and still has debt.
Also I have a lucrative investment proposal 😉
Fun fact: similar effect to black opal is achieved by loading normal opals inside of the nuclear reactor core. Radiation makes it change it properties. It's commonly done inside of the NCBJ (Narodowe centrum badań jądrowych ) in Poland
Opal is so addictive. Once you're hooked, you're hooked.
Amen
Or you just have money to spend.
I think you're confusing opium with opal LMAO!
@@VivekRajput-uo5rm 🤣🤣🤣
@@VivekRajput-uo5rm Thats true, opiates are pretty addictive too. I'm addicted to both, but I would prefer it to be only Opal.
Me: *watched a miner getting $50k black opal*
RUclips: I see you love black opals
I saw that video too loll
My husband gave me a wedding band that was inlayed all around with black opal. It was stunning. Unfortunately, it was also too fragile for everyday wear, as we eventually discovered. After a couple of years, about half the opal in it had chipped or cracked and fallen out. I’ve stuck with a gold band ever since.
Whoever sold you that band with opals in it should have told you how fragile it is! I worked at a fine jewelry store in Dallas Tx. We always warned buyers hiw sodt it was!
@@jeanetteshawredden5643 I wish I had known how fragile it was, but since I wasn’t the one who bought it, I never even spoke to a jeweler about it. Ah, well.
“But mining black Opal isn’t easy”... “let’s find out why it’s so expensive”. Eh?! You literally just answered that in the first opening statement.
Damn I mean if they guy who’s been doing it 45 years hasn’t made a breakthrough, then I don’t know why anyone else would go into that business
It only takes one kahuna noggin you're set. Irrespective of that, if it pays the bills it can't be wise than a lot of other jobs it there.
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@@geoffreytownsend1441 no
@@geoffreytownsend1441 pyramid scheme much?
@@geoffreytownsend1441 lol what you got?
I worked for a jewelry manufacturer about 35 yrs ago, a customer sent us a packet of black opal to set in several pieces, I inquired about the opal and he sent me a 3 x 5 oval stone, which I purchased, I don’t remember how much he charged me, but it was beautiful, I set it in a necklace. I miss working in jewelry, I always was buying something, but at that time gold was only 250-325 an ounce, so it was affordable.
Opals are so beautiful, and black opal are just amazing and stunning. I love opal stones so much, opals really are magical!!!!
It's just a shame it really is hard to find them and it can negatively impact those who find these gems
mate, no negative impacts on those that find them in Australia, which is where the vast majority of opals are found! Try a different gem for that story!
@@mehere8038Im not really sure what youre trying to say, but what I meant was that people can get hurt trying to get to them. Such as the caves probably closing in on them, and other horrible mishaps that could take place when attaining them.
@@-Secret Very rare with opals in Australia. Opals don't lend themselves to industrial level production, so it tends to be individuals, who tend to take care of their own safety.
Coober Pedy is the main opal centre of Australia (although for white opal, not black) & people literally live in the "mines" there, they have electricity & plumbing & everything a normal house would have, except they build their houses underground, so as to avoid the heat & they can afford to do so, because excavating for the house finds enough opals to pay for the construction/excavation. There's churches, pubs, hotels, everything you can imagine found underground in "mines" in Coober Pedy & people can literally dig for opals while sitting on their lounge watching tv in their living room, so again, wrong gem to be talking about that with. Lots of gems & metals put people in danger, but Australian opals are really not one of those
Wish they had shown more of the actual industrial process of extracting the opal clay, loading it onto a truck for processing, and "puddling it" like the miner described. I guess it makes a more human-relatable video to show an guy chipping at a rock wall with a pickaxe.
I love black opal . During my COVID quarantine I binged watched a lot of mining and polish/cutting videos .
I'm less surprised at the actual opal and more surprised that trees can grow underground
edit: no, this isn't a joke, i was actually confused as to why there's logs underground
@XPureToveX well, cause there is no sunlight
Glitch in the game, I already reported it to Minecraft.
ruclips.net/video/GV1gvw_dexoy/видео.html4
They aren’t trees, they’re actually just logs used as support beams to make sure the room doesn’t cave in :)
@@creampill8013 um, you know thats the joke
These miners obviously love playing in the dirt. The Opal is just a bonus.
As a child I was mesmerised by the glimmer of opal but everybody else desired diamonds and other precious stones.
All the more for you!
I had bought a pair of Black Opal necklace for my ex on V-day 2 years back. It was a little over 10K USD back then. But, she didn't believe the price, and refused it then asked me to return it (well, we were kinda in an argument for weeks at the time, maybe that's why she didn't take the present).
Even now, I still keep it with me. LMAO
I'm straight but I wanna date you
how do you have so much extra money when most people barely pay rent. smh
@@pinkpugginz working hard?
@@doc7569 good excuse
@@doc7569 good excuse
There is a place in Montana I think where you can pay a daily fee to dig for precious gems, and keep whatever you find. Some people have found stones worth thousands of dollars after just a short while of digging less than a foot underground. I think that would be a cool experience.
I mentioned Uncut Gems on my phone.. and sure enough this video pops up in my suggestions
Google and Apple: 👀
What I have learnt from watching 'So Expensive':
Rarity = expense
If my eyes aren't deceiving me I'd say the woman must be really rich if she can afford both opal earrings and a necklace.
She probably was able to make that herself for practice. Sometimes the way a gem is cut isn't quality to get sent to someone but definitely good enough to practice on. Or it was a gift xDD
not really, here in Australia its not hard to buy. I have a similar set, large opal studs and a necklace, that I got for a few hundred.
that opal is bussing
aave misuse 🤡
@@mgr.chelsea what...
@@piink_lace bussing is AAVE its used to describe something tasting nice, you can’t eat an Opal therefore it can’t taste nice so calling it “bussin” is misuse of that word
@@mgr.chelsea Eh, probably doesn't really matter that much. Normal English probably has a bunch of misuse. Like how most people use the word irony/ironic the wrong way. But it's kind of just accepted a life of its own at this point. Same with literally, among others...
@@piink_lace Just a grammar nazi, pretty much. Just Google aave, it's an acronym.
~“Non black opals usually only have one color.“
*Well, that‘s a straight up lie...*
key word *usually*
@@svampebob007 Blue opals can have green in them, Ethiopian Opals are another multicolored one, Fire opals, White Opals-
There's too many varieties for that to be true x'DDD
yeah lol iridescence is like the whole defining characteristic of every opal ever
They thought of common Opal
Don’t you read, it says “usually” you even typed it 🙄🙄
That guy is awesome. I would seriously watch an entire series based around his mining operations, lol.
People who mine as a proffesion:this opal had no value it is worthless.
Me with my crow brain: oooohhh pretty shiny rocks 🤩
‘Doesn’t have any value common black opal’ I felt that
me tbh
@@thatrainbowdudeplayz2801 it had no colour. It was just the stuff they hope to find backing thin bands of crystalline opal which, with a little bit of luck, will make it a gem.
I have no value 😭😭😭
I’m just one person out of the many 😭😭😭
Yeah 👂 hearing the glass sound coming from the wall face when the pick scrapped over the sand stone, finding a black knobby..
(Exciting SOUND that)
Woohoo 🥳 😀
Seeing no colour the woohoo 🎉 delights start fizzling away
But the miner knows common black opal is not commonly found..
finding black trace without colour are still awesome signs he is in the right place 🥳🎉🎶
its great at the annual markets when local opal miners sell off the scraps/chips. there is nothing more fun than taking home a back of cheap chips and processing them and revealing their flash
Thank you. Your video and AUDIO is true gem
Opal is my birthstone and I've always loved it
Have you seen fire opal? Its beautiful
@@yutba I have not until your post! I love the variaty of it
ruclips.net/video/GV1gvw_dexoy/видео.html5
I Have Black Opal If You Want Contact Me
first gemstone i've ever seen and desired at first glance
Beautiful stone indeed
The miners just need to download the most recent x-ray texture pack and they are set for life!
Geo phys?
When he was explaining “when do I leave, when do I stop” when searching for Opal I started having mine craft flash backs.
Despite all the amazing beauty of opal, they are fragile. I think of them as prima donnas of the gem world.
Not necessarily, only one type of Opal is considered volatile in the sense it breaks easily, Black Opal on the other hand can be cut with a saw fairly easily
‘that’s history right there, ya understand?’
It’s also found in northern Nevada. My bf and I have a trip planned to spend the weekend camping up there and going to the mines. Can’t wait!
Having played Minecraft I know exactly what this guy is going through
I remember in the 90s when everyone had Opal and children were throwing it away because they werent diamonds.
what
the
Frick
I think you mean turquoise.
Can someone tell me what they do with the holes they dug under ground after they're done with it? Do they cover it up or do they leave it as is?
What I learnt from this video apart from the rarest opal itself is that man's effort & dedication 🔥❤️
3:05 Most realistic Minecraft I've ever seen.
In local Indonesian, we call it"Kalimaya" and "Jarong", and it's cheaper than Australian Black Opal, but has the same beauty in my opinion. Just search "Kalimaya Banten" and you will find amazing pieces of gemstone and you can get it started in 5 USD.
THANKS! I just looked it up. It does look like it!
Make sure Kevin Garnett returns it!
Cultured
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My engagement ring is opal~ it's a light lavender with flashes of purple, green, pink....
It's pale but I like it that way 😍
Curious fact about Lightning Ridge, it’s official population is less than 2000 but it’s local supermarkets and other essential stores sell enough products for a much higher population. Presumably this is due to a large number of people living “off the grid” in the area.
when we were searching for my quinceaños ring, nothing caught my attention
I was 14 at the time but I was already into gems, and seen the variety that existed out there I refused to settle so easily on something more common like a diamond
got to a store one day and as soon as I saw that play of color I fell in love. Mom tried to convince me maybe not an opal- asked me several times if I truly liked it, if I didn't liked any of the emerals or amethysts- don't get me wrong they were pretty! just... not an opal
been 6 years, I still love my ring with all my heart
also it was cheaper than the other stones 😂 so extra points for that!
"This is me. This is how I win." - Howard Ratner, Uncut Gems
I really appreciate humanity's capacity to like pretty rocks. It's one of the few endearing qualities about us.
This is super fascinating! My engagement ring has a black opal instead of a diamond, which is perfect because opal is my favorite stone. And the best part of it is, it was his mom's first engagement ring before her husband bought her a new one when they renewed their vows. It also has two blue topaz on each side and thats my birth stone.....literally meant to be 🥰
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These opal mine owners are so passionate about their job, I expect some have asked to be buried in their mines when they passed away.
Every why it's so expensive video
"It's rare"
"it's time-consuming"
"it's laborious"
Me:
"Ooooohhh! Black Opal....I DO wonder why it's so expensive"
Nobody :
The number of times she said the word ‘expensive’ :
It's all so unreasonable to me, the concept of jewelry as a whole. If we're talking about sheer beauty, there's so much more of it in the most basic of arts & crafts. I mean simple glass allows for so many amazing pieces of art.
"90% comes from Australia"
Of course. Such a rare item can only be farmed in the highest level area.
2:41 that's what i do when mining diamond in Minecraft
I like how this series answers the very question it’s asking within its 30 second intro. And yet, I stick around to watch what I’ve already been told.
try and pawn a priceless opal, you'll be lucky to get $50 for it
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@@yunaneomi Do you know about forex trading ?
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@@yunaneomi I’ll brush through forex, to make sure we fully understand ourselves Forex trading (forex meaning foreign exchange) is the prediction of the chart movement of currency pairs (I.e two different currencies traded together, e.g EUR|USD) since there is always a constant change in their economy, there are currency price change every second, leading to the opportunity of price prediction to trade if the pair will buy (increase in price) or sell (decrease in price), the reward for proper price prediction creates profit and the market has a high liquidity
can I go on?
Opal is my birth stone & I love all Opal types 💯
Go dig for it then.
Toh kya hum naache 😂😂😂
@@priyankagarwal4798 what
Wtf is birth stone
@@josephm.6453 It's like a kidney stone
I'm learning that everything expensive is so because it is mined or gathered at the expense of people. Very good reason to live on the cheap. Thank you for the information.
Reminds me of the Rainbow Fish book.
Am I the only one who get reminded of Suga saying "Soo expansive,3 dollars" when I see the 'so expensive' intro😂
My dad lives in Lightning Ridge!! Miners like to not disclose how much they have found over the years because they don't want to be targets for theft/dishonesty. I was told a water divining rod can give one a favourable sign as to the presence of opal.
I don't think that there is any other legitimate way to earn money nowadays rather than investing
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Such a beautiful gem. IMO nothing else really compares to Australian Opal. Even Koriot Boulder Opal is priceless. A Diamond has nothing to compare. All it does is refract the colors. Opals make the colors.
The miner is very passionate about opal, what a beautiful connection to the gemstone he has.
Here cause of the movie Uncut Gems
I can see this being a tv show on the "History Channel"
There is a RUclips channel called Black Opal Direct where the guy buys and cuts (I never understood why they say cut, the process is really grind and polish - but anyway) the stones. It's mildly addictive and often interesting.
Opal has always been close to my heart. My mom, dad, and even my new & only dog have this as a birthstone. all born in October. I hope to get it in my wedding ring!
I went to lighting ridge a few months ago and my parents bought so much black opal ._.
But we went to this digging sight and found opal :0
I guess I'm glad people are doing this, since I love opal. But watching this, I can't help but feel like choosing an opal mining career takes either an insane opal fanatic or an idiot.
I have some uncut Ethiopian Opal (the clear/whiter ones with more blues and greens) and the colors are amazing.. Man those black opal are incredible.
Teacher: There are no such things as stupid questions
"What makes Black Opal so hard to find, and why is it so expensive?"
Teacher: ye nevermind
Yeah, I was able to take a trip down to Australia and on my trip I was able to find an
Opal dealer, and I was able to look at a large variety of opals ,
It was quite fascinating ,
And I was able to get a really good explanation of the miming proces ,
And I was able to buy a really nice stone as a gift for a family member,
Talk about a a really nice surprise;
I was really worried about the contents of my luggage though,
However that wasn’t any problem ,
I returned with all of my gifts,
And Australia was a wonderful place to visit,
Even though it was about a 20 hour flight from Los Angeles,
My doctor was able to give me a
Prescription script for several sleeping tablets so that I could snooze on both the very long flight over there as well as the flight back home,
Talk about being worn out by the time the plane landed,
However all of the people in Australia were very nice,
Including the Australian officials ,
Everything was nice 👍
If worried about bringing opals or meds of anything into Australia, always just tick "yes" in the appropriate box on the passenger declaration card & you won't get into trouble for anything, customs will just check what you've got & in the vast majority of cases approve it. If you tick no though & do have something you were supposed to tick yes for, you'll be in serious trouble! Australian customs is kinda the reverse of the rest of the world in that regard & glad you enjoyed Australia :))