SEDA OPAL JEWELERY

 BOULDER OPAL PENDANT

This is a natural boulder stone from Jundah field in  Queensland .It has been well polished and set with silver ready to wear.

The stone has been bezel set which helps protect it.

This  pendant has been enhanced with natural spessartite garnet from tanzania.

The workmanship and quality is excellent.

Sterling silver

Stamped 925

Weight of opal 7.50 cts app

Size of opal  12 x 12 mm app

Amount of silver used 1.60 gramms app

length of pendant 25 mm app

Weight of stone and silver: 17.50 cts.

Our jewelery manafacturing is contracted out to one factory in asia where i supply  both the silver and stones to be set.This gives me control of  the quality of both the silver and stones.

SPESSARTITE  garnet is ideochromatic, meaning that it is colored by a fundamental element in its composition. That element is manganese, which produces an orange color. Take away the manganese, and it would no longer be spessartite.

Garnets species are found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, black, pink and colorless.Some  change color from blue-green in the daylight to purple in incandescent light, as a result of the relatively high amounts of vanadium. Other varieties of color-chaging garnets exist. In daylight, their color ranges from shades of green, beige, brown, gray, and blue, but in incandescent light, they appear a reddish or purplish/pink color. Because of their color changing quality, this kind of garnet is often mistaken for Alexandrite.