Know Your Gemstones
Perhaps the most intriguing of all gems for its capacity to display multicolored flashes of light at the same time. When in movement, it gives the visual sensation of a living object.
Australia and Brazil are the only important sources of precious opal. Production has been irregular; consequently, the finer qualities are quite rare.
Color: white opal has a light body color. Black opal has a dark body color. The rare presence of the set of colors effect is what makes the opal precious.
Set of Colors: the quality of the precious opal is determined by the quality and distribution of the multicolored flashes of light within each cabochon cut opal.
Transparency: translucent to semi-transparent.
Pioneers: Amsterdam Sauer was responsible for the discovery of the first Brazilian opal deposits.
Click here to see the Amsterdam Sauer Opal Selection
