💎 How do you clean your opals? 💎 Whether you own opals or sell opal jewellery, knowing how to care for opals is really important and the information available can be really confusing! There are different types of Opal and they have to be treated very differently. Ethiopian Opal is what we Gemmologists call a hydroplane Opal and this type of Opal can not get wet! If it gets wet it might crack or lose its play of colour! Australian Opal doesn’t mind getting wet and it’s even advised that if you

Sue from @brokenrivermining presents: Opal Fossils with Unpreserved Internal Details Opal formation commences when silica dissolves in water. At our Russell’s opal mine we have found that this silica solution occupies a void most probably left by decaying tree roots or branches. When it solidifies it creates an opalized replica of the original object. These are also known as ‘jelly mould’ fossils. In some rare cases, like shown above, we have found large and rare opal fossil specimens with beaut