We need to see a close up of the dude’s ring.

Thank you, Danny and Michelle for being in this video and telling us about the gemstones and the process of getting it and getting it to look the way we see them on the market.

Loved the opalized fossils! Didn't even know that was a thing!

Thank you Danny and Michelle for your knowledge. Natalie, what do you think of making a video about rare varieties of Opal? Opal can have 71 different varieties and probably more from what I've researched on Mindat. Here are a few rare examples. Isopyre, an impure dark red variety of Opal. Isopyre can come from a few quarries in Cornwall, England. The Dickerson Mine in Morris County, New Jeresy is the only and I mean the only mine in America were Isopyre comes from. Forcherite, a variety of Opal with traces of Orpiment or Realgar. It was named after Mr. Forcher who first discovered the original specimens. It only comes from a couple of localities. One in Ingering Valley, Knittenfeld, Styria, Austria. The other in the Mineral Spring in Saint-Nectaire, France. Modaro Opal, a purple variety of Opal. Modaro Opal gets it's name from the Spanish word, "Modaro" meaning, "Purple" since it only comes from Mun, De Magdalene, Jalisco, Mexico. Modaro Opal gets it's purple color from traces of Purple Fluorite which is the reason why it can fluoresce Cyan under short wave UV light. Due to traces of Uranium, it can also fluoresce Green under long wave UV light. Modaro Opal is also called "Grape Opal" or "Mexican Purple Opal".

I would like to clarify that while Lightning Ridge is definitely Australia's prime source for black opal, in recent years commercial quantities of black opal have been found in a number of different sites around Australia including Mintabe which is no longer producing any, and, Coober Pedy where the black material is largely darkened by patches of black inclusions through volcanic opal material unlike the black potch of lightning ridge, the black opals from these locations are rarely quite as dark as the N1 black opals found in Lightning Ridge but nonetheless they are quite stunning. I myself have seen a sizeable black opal specimen obtained from drilling operations off the coast of Sydney's Bondi beach "mostly potch with only a small seam of precious opal running through" and, I was lucky enough to have witnessed a black opal being found in an alluvial deposit about an hour south of Sydney. Hopefully in the years to come more sources for commercial quantities of Australian black opal will be found, the Lightning Ridge supply is running out and quality black opal is becoming more expensive each year as a consequence🙂

I love how proud she is of her skills. If that was my daughter I would be shedding a tear, a huge proud tear.

Completely in love with your work . Your videos are truly helpful for people who want to learn about gemstones.

That truck stop opal story was amazing!

Wonderful!! I was never much into Aussie Opals but Danny and Michelle changed my view on them! I too love that Opal fossil shell and would love to see the earrings Michelle designs/makes when she finds a pair because I bet they will be stunning! Very cool podcast video!! Thank You!

Michelle single-handedly financed the business haha and she cuts??? Amazing ❤️

Many thanks, Danny and Michelle! The stones were all lovely, and I enjoy hearing the stories of how they come to us. It's all spectacular spectacle.

Thank you Danny & Michelle!! 💜

Thank you to Danny and Michelle for sharing these beautiful opals and the work behind them! Very interesting!

I have really grown to love opals!

Thank you Danny & Michelle 💎

Thank you Danny and Michelle!

just started learning about gems at school and been watching a few vids, its awesome to see rocks like these, that are from Australia, and not from overseas. makes me want to try find something my self! :D thanks to Danny, Michelle and you for the great video. :)

My local Gem supplier has on display, an entire bone structure of an entire Opalised Dinosaur. The most stunning colours of blues and greens as the majority. It’s enormous. At Deavonmeadows southern Victoria.

Thanks so much Danny and Michelle you are wonderful guests :3

That gemstone looks like a powerup from a videogame. It is beautiful. It looks like a stone from fantasy.

Opal mining isn't just hard it's incredibly dangerous and props and much respect to all the opal miners

Thank you Danny and Michelle! :)

MAGNIFICENT OPAL,THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING.💖

Love it!!! Thank you!

Super interesting stories! Love opal.. first bought 5-6 years ago and never looked back. Looking more into Lightening Ridge and all these vids..

Thank you Danny! Thank you Michelle! I LOVE opal this was awesome!

Love these!

The background music is a bit too loud and makes it hard (for me) to hear what's being said. Fyi :)

Ugh, it's my DREAM to mine and work opal. I live in WA and really want to venture down to the Virgin Valley in NV to go digging for precious opal. I plan to stop through OR on the way because I know a woman who has a fire opal claim there and will let me mine for free. The pieces I've seen come out of it are incredible and I can't wait to get some money together so I can go explore for myself. The way that Danny described opal is how I feel about chalcedony, since that's what's most prevalent around me. Jasper, agate, even chert can be beautiful in its own ways and I'm always amazed to see the natural art that comes out of the earth.

Thank you Danny and Michelle

Thank you Danny.

Thank you Danny and Michelle! This video was fascinating, and I love opals. I learned a ton I had no idea about too - I'm curious, is there any use/market value for potch opals? I'm going to have to Google and see what those look like.

I love opals and those were spectacular.

Thanks Danny

16:03 woah! That is awesome!

Omg I had to get my own opal to look at I also got it from these guys it’s beautiful also it’s a black opal

thank you danny

Thank you.

Opals are incredibly beautiful.

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 perfect necklace

I love the content of this video, but the background music was far too loud to actually hear what the host and guest were talking about. Opals were beautiful though!

Really, please come back. Opal is the best

how much is the big one worth?

Tankyo

Fabulous informative video! A pity then that I had to switch to silent/subtitles because of that dreadful 'noise'/music in the background which totally wrecked it.

Wow

Yay opal that's my birthstone

That opal looks like a deformed mixed flavored ring pop. Great now I want to eat it.

What is the king of all gemstones?

He is relaxed why is she nervous?? I even forgot about beautiful gemstone reading her body language

Can you do a video over tigers eye?

I never new I cared about rocks in tell the Steven Universe episodes.

I'm a box aficionado, a connoisseur if you will.

This girls channel got some space all of a sudden

BjsA

Opal is not the Queen Its the King of all gemstones

Love the show, hate that music. Its like someone is playing with the volume knob.

For the love of whatever you call that's holy, please actually show the the beautiful opal to the viewer more, Thank you.!!

I love your videos but I could not get to the 2 minute mark on this on because of the obnoxious distracting "music"

"hello on jutjub" i cant paahahahaha

Love your videos 💕 but, it us almost unbearable with the intence loud layer of electronic music. As if the subject itself can bear to stand alone. Please let the conversations stand on their own 🙏

Is it just me, or was he kind of patronising? Might just be me being a bit oversensitive

Background music is annoying

Second.

First

That particular background music is annoying AF.

The music is awful. Good video though.