Buy Rough Opals from Australia

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From The Mines To Precious Opal Rough opals are uncut stone direct f rom the opal mines. Rough opal are uncut and unshaped gemstones, which are sold af ter cleaning, to either opal cutters who are using them f or a hobby, or f or serious processional cutters who on-sell the completed stones to jewelers and opal manuf acturers. Australian opal mines are the source of most of the worlds production of opals, being over 90% of the supplies. Opal rough can come in all colors and shades. Broadly speaking, white and crystal opal rough comes f rom the Coober Pedy f ields in South Australia, black opal comes f rom Lightning Ridge in NSW, and boulder opal comes f rom Queensland.

Feeding the Opal Jewelry manuf acturing demand For successf ul gemstone jewelry production, it’s necessary to have a regular supply of stones and this can be a problem with rough opals at present. In the case of gemstones such as sapphires, diamonds, rubies, etc, this is not such a big problem because there are usually good supplies of these stones PDFmyURL.com


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