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A rare crystal centred Koroit Nut Australian Opal

SOLID AUSTRALIAN OPALS BOULDER OPAL PENDANTS, YOWAH AND KOROIT OPAL PENDANTS, CUT AUSTRALIAN OPALS FROM YOWAH, KOROIT AND THE BOULDER OPAL FIELDS OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

BE SURPRISED!! If you think of Australian opal as the white, rather plain looking stone that you see in cheap jewellery then you are about to be amazed... Most of the Australian opals from Yowah and Koroit that you will see here are amazing natural artworks, with brilliant colours and fantastic patterns. Yowah Opals come in several forms, the most valuable are crystal centred opal "Nuts" like the one pictured above from our own private collection. Yowah and Koroit matrix opals like the one on the right are also highly prized. Also known as "Aboriginal Art Opals" and as "Picture Stone Opals". Read more about them by clicking  the "Our Opals" link.   A Yowah Matrix Australian Opal , Blackgate Opal Field     WHAT YOU WON'T FIND HERE! We don't sell opal doublets or opal triplets. These are manufactured by glueing thin pieces of opal onto a backing of stone or even plastic. All of the Yowah opals, Koroit opals and boulder opals that we sell are 100% natural products that we cut from the rough opal and polish ourselves.      Brian and Liz in our opal mine at Yowah   TRUST AND REPUTATION! We have sold thousands of our Australian opals to buyers right around the world. Many of our regular customers have gone on to become personal friends. We have also been selling opals on eBay since 2001. and have an eBay shop selling the same type of Australian opals that are on this site. By clicking here you can check out some more of our Australian opals, or you can read the feedback that our hundreds of satisfied customers have left. WHO ARE WE? We are a family business of opal miners and opal cutters located in Australia. Most of the Australian opals that you will see in this web site are cut and polished by us. We mine underground at Yowah Opal Field during the winter and spend the balance of the year cutting our opals. The photo on the left shows our opal mine at Yowah.  Liz is lurking in the background. The underground mining is done by hand using a jackhammer. All of the opals are individually cut by hand on diamond faced grinding wheels. When we aren't mining or cutting opals we are travelling the opal fields looking for more rough opal. If you would like to get an idea of life on the Australian Opal fields please click here.  Visitors are welcome whether we are at our opal mine or we are at our house on the coast (about two hours drive south from Brisbane) cutting opals.  We don't have a shop, but you can browse through our opals or just come in for a "cuppa" and talk opals with a couple of fellow opal addicts, or even try your hand at cutting an opal in our workshop. If you see an Australian opal on this site that you are interested in but would like more information, just send us an e-mail.     These are some of our most recently added opals. Click on the photo to go directly to the detail page for each one: THE PICTURES All our opals are solid natural stones. They are not treated in any way except for being cut and polished,  unless specifically stated. The photographs are not touched up, and are taken under a  50 watt halogen desk lamp. The opal may appear darker in normal interior lighting, and will look best under bright lights or in sunlight. It is difficult to capture all of the beauty of opal in a still photograph. Part of its wonder is the changing colours and sparkles that you see when the opal is rotated under bright lights. When you receive one of our opals you will get a pleasant surprise, as they are almost always better than they appear in the pictures.