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.
Pronaći crveni vatreni dragulj crni opal u paketu crni opal grub je san svakog rezača opala. Čak i mnogi rudari opala ne pronađu komadić crvenih opala tijekom svog životnog vijeka vađenja opala. Rudari u Lighting Ridgeu uvijek pričaju o pronalaženju paketa crvenog vatrenog crnog opala . To je ono što muškarce drži u pozitivnom mentalnom stavu da bi danas mogao biti dan kada će pronaći svoj džep dragulja od crnog opala.
U stvarnosti je druga priča jer je sada samo pronaći opal puno teže nego prije nekoliko godina . Mnogim rudarima je bilo lako iskopati džepove opala u rudnicima, ali sada postoji više vladinih politika kojeotežavaju istraživanje opala ili rudarenje opala. Proizvodnja crnog opala je u padu već nekoliko godina, ali potražnja je velika za vrhunskim crvenim na crnom. Investicijski opal i mnogi vrhunski dragulji opali se odmah prodaju na poljima opala jer veletrgovci opala imaju kupce diljem svijeta koji žele ugrabiti vrhunske vatrene crne opale.
Koliko je rijedak crveni vatreni crni opal?
Samo iznimno mali postotak crnih opala je vrhunski dragulj crni opal, a samo manji postotak je veliki koji je preko 10 karata. Kako rudari kažu "Rijeđi od kokošijih zuba!" Ovaj video pronalaženja crnih opala crvene vatre u paketu grubog opala su kolege iz rudarstva Paul, iz Seda opals i Chris iz Opalrusha . Obojica rudare u Lightning Ridgeu u Queenslandu oko 30 godina i imaju puno rudarskog iskustva za razmjenu.
Neki od naših iskusnih prodavača opala dali su komentare kako bi pokazali koliko je rijetko pronaći ove opale.
Paul iz Seda Opals kaže da u pravilu samo 1% iskopane posude ima bilo koju boju, a samo 1% od toga je crveno na crnom pa je izuzetno rijetko. Sada kada znate koliko su rijetki ovi opali, pregledajte našu kolekciju crnih opala i pokušajte pronaći svoj vlastiti crveni na crnom dragulju.
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9 ljudi smatraju ovaj članak korisnimEnjoy 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!
:)