Opal Earrings

 

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Due to the unique quality of each opal, wholesalers must hand-select from bulk parcels in order to find matching sets for opal earrings. It is especially challenging to find matching solids, like Black or Boulder opals.

Most opal earrings are set in sterling silver or gold and are made for pierced ears. Some of the opals used for earrings are solid, while others may be doublets or triplets

Black Opal Earrings, as most black opals are formed as knobby,

Which is similar to a stone and the opal formed is mostly unique and hard to find another opal similar to make  a matching earring

. Sometimes an opal miner will cut the opal into two so that the opals match but most times one side is always more brighter than the other

For this reason black Opal pairs are highly prized.if matching for earrings

 

Boulder opals are formed different to black opals in the silica or opal is formed in between ironstone.

The opal miner will cut a small nick at one end and over night the rock will split open to expose the opal .

Sometimes they are good match and other times too much potch is on one side.

Boulder opal make good earrings as natural pair earrings

 

Crystal or white opal is the easiest opal for match pairs for earrings as it is formed in seam opal or layers and is easily matched

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Last Update: 3 Jan 2011