Finding a red fire gem black opal in a parcel black opal rough is every opal cutters dream. Even many opal miners do not find a parcel of red opals in their life time of opal mining. Miners at Lighting Ridge always talk about finding a parcel of red fire black opal. It’s what keeps the men in a positive mental attitude that today might be the day that they find their pocket of black opal gems.
In reality it is a different story as just to find opal now is lot more difficult than it was years ago. Many miners found it easy to dig up pockets of opals in the mines but now there are more government policies that make it harder to do opal prospecting or opal mining. Production of black opal has been down for several years but demand is strong for top red on black Investment opal and many top gem opals are sold instantly on the opal fields as opal wholesalers have buyers worldwide wanting to snatch up the top fire black opals.
Just how rare is a red fire black opal?
Only an extremely small percentage of black opals are top gem black opal and only a smaller percentage are large which is over 10 carats. As miners say “More rare than a hens teeth!” This video of finding black opals red fire in a parcel rough opal are mining mates Paul, from Seda opals and Chris from Opalrush. They have both been mining at Lightning Ridge, Queensland for around 30 years each and have a lot mining experience to share.
Some of Our experienced opal sellers have made comments to show how rare it is to find these opals.
Paul from Seda Opals says as a rule of thumb only 1% of potch that is mined has any colour and only 1% of that is red on black so it is extremely rare. Now that you know how rare these opals are, browse our collection of Black Opals and try and find your own red on black gem.
在一个包裹着黑色欧泊的毛坯中找到一块红色的宝石黑欧泊是每个欧泊切割者的梦想。甚至许多蛋白石矿工在蛋白石开采的生命中也找不到一包红色的蛋白石。照明山脊的矿工们总是在谈论寻找一堆红火黑蛋白石。这就是使男人们保持积极的心态的原因,今天也许是他们找到黑色欧泊宝石口袋的那一天。
实际上,这是另一回事,因为现在要找到蛋白石比几年前困难得多。许多矿工发现在矿山中挖掘蛋白石很容易,但是现在有更多的政府政策使进行蛋白石勘探或蛋白石开采变得更加困难。黑欧泊的产量已经下降了好几年,但对于顶级红黑色的需求是强劲的投资蛋白石和许多顶级宝石蛋白石的蛋白石领域立即出售蛋白石批发商有世界各地的买家想要抢夺了顶黑火蛋白石。
红火黑蛋白石到底有多稀有?
黑色欧泊中只有极少数是顶级宝石黑欧泊,而较大的是超过10克拉的黑欧泊。正如矿工所说的:“比母牙还稀有!”这段视频是在一个包裹粗糙的蛋白石中发现黑蛋白石红火的视频,他们是Seda蛋白石的开采伙伴Paul和Opalrush的Chris。他们俩都在昆士兰州的闪电岭进行了大约30年的开采,并分享了很多采矿经验。
我们的一些经验丰富的蛋白石卖家发表了评论,以显示找到这些蛋白石的难得程度。
塞达·欧泊(Seda Opals)的保罗说,根据经验,只有1%的矿坑有任何颜色,只有1%的颜色是黑色的红色,因此极为罕见。既然您已经知道这些蛋白石是多么稀有,请浏览我们的黑蛋白石收藏,并尝试在黑宝石上找到您自己的红色。
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9人们认为这篇文章很有帮助Enjoy learning about my favorite gem! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Gives me a great appreciation for the Opal hunter!
Such a fun video! I'd love to see more of these types of videos when a cutter thinks he or she MIGHT have a particularly great stone—so cool to see it go from "bland" rough to amazing!
Of course, listening to Paul & Chris comment along the way is fun, too—not every cutter necessarily has a bubbly personality like they do :)
I wonder how long the whole process took in "real life" from the moment the rough actually touched a grinding wheel?
Videos like this would be nice in GRA, too, when some of the cutters get a special piece of rough. Bet it would increase the selling price—hint, hint to the few exceptional cutters out there (I'm lookin' at you—Ross, Barry, Boyd, and others—lol!)
MORE VIDEOS OF EXCEPTIONAL STONE CUTTING, PLEASE!
:)