I'm black and my name is Opal. Rare and beautiful! Thanks for informative video. I needed a pick-me-up!

Great instructional video. You addressed some big questions I had. Thank you.

Thanks for the video, great examples!

What is your opinion on Ethiopian opals? Could you do a video comparing/showing the differences of Opals from around the world?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone. It doesn't seem like it matters but you never know what you just shared could change someone's life, or even save it.

Great job Justin thanks for all the info!

Always interesting to watch your videos

good information...love your videos. thanks!

Great simple explanation of opal great videos keep up the good work.

Great info mate. Many thanks!

Thanks for the video. I needed help identifying an opal that I had polished a while back. Now I know that it is a black opal!

I recently found a few yellow body tone opals in a rough parcel from Australia. All 3 cut perfectly transparent gems. Two of the 3 have play of color, flashes of blue. Seller listed source as Coocoran. They are really quite beautiful. However, I have no idea if they have much value. I cut them as cabochons. However, they'd probably be even more magnificent if faceted (not in my skill set). Had a couple others in same parcel that had a greenish body tone with blue play of color. While these are crystal opals as well, they are a bit cloudy.

Thank you, it was very helpful!

I am from Mexico and I have a brazalet with opals. they are so beautiful. orange opals, transparent with rainbow. I have a stone with opal it is blue and green and orange. I like so much.

Thanks for the video. I plan to prospect for opal & other gems in the U.S., primarily in In Texas. Eventually I would like to cut & polish the stones. Cheers! Israel

Thank you for this...what a gr8 country to claim your gems. Wish I could visit...

Great video, I had just bought a white Australian Opal ! They do look translucent in nature ! However those black and crystal opals are so damn beautiful. In India white Australian Opal is also known as Fire Australian Opal.

Hey Justin would love to see you guys cutting some boulder opal by hand or with dremel would be really awesome. great vids as always.

I enjoy the videos very much! Opal is so amazing

great clip man,,, as usual ,,,, whats your opinion on andamooka matrix and its value before and after treatment if you wouldn't mind justin ?

Informative video sir about opal I really get a true information from your video, one question sir in last of video you showing a yellowish volcanic opal also it does find in Australia or Africa I got this been cutting, now day's also, is it valuable?

Very nice!

Nice information

Can you do a video on yowah opal. I'm finding it hard to get information on how it's formed.

Fascinating! Sometimes I wish I lived in Australia, there's so much to discover and find!

Thank for the video! Very interesting!

Cheers Justin, great job mate.

Hi great work bro Do you sell them i want to buy it

I need advice on some dark/grey/black coober pedy i have ... it's scaring Me

I didn't know about the real difference between white and crystal until now, thank you. Also, I will see what's new with the last one!!

Can you tel my why Lightning Ridge has so many opals?

👍👍👍👍👍 very nice video ! a mine of information ! Thanks so much justin !

Great informative video 😎 What about Australian Fairy Opal? I know must are treated, to turn the sandstone base darker, but it is still an opal matrix

What do you know about NZ opal? I found a green crystal opal in Tairua river the other day. It's very similar to the last one you show, with no colour play, but it is totally transparent when you shine a torch through it you can see the opposite sides face.

Hi! can i ask some help, we have found some kind of stone, i don't know what kind of stone is. I have a video on it.

Crystal, double sided for me. The one in your collection. It’s beautiful.

Beautiful

Clear explanation of opal types. But I found one type is missing. How about matrix opal?

Your distain for white opals is the same as mine for boulder opal. Ty for the information. Is crystal the same as jelly opal?

What about Yowah nut or Koroit? Is that also considered boulder opal? I think that's where I get confused. Seam vs. boulder vs. knobby.

Can we wear dark opal (lightning ridge) under the sunlight ??

I'd like to know if in order to make opal Black, someone puts a black backer on crystal opal (or any other treatment) is that considered Black Opal or is it a cheat. How does one know real opal from something that has been treated to look better than it's natural look ? If crystal opal is put on a black background, can it be genuinely considered black opal ?

So, was that last yellow opal what's known as Fire Opal? I've seen them mining for red Fire opal and orange Fire opal on "Outback Opal Hunters", but didn't see that yellow type.

Hey mate, I have a reasonably large tintenbar opal (not sure if it can be called that as it was actually found in a creek in Nimbin) I'm wondering if you can make a video on tintenbar opals and surrounding areas, it's my understanding there are a number of mountains slightly inland in NSW where volcanic opals can be found in creeks and I would be very interested to hear your take

Was the find of fire opal in WA the one that was featured on Outback Opal Hunters? Or was that afterwards?

Thanks mate you bloody legend

When setting a crystal opal is it possible to use a black background to get the same effect as a black opal?

Hi justin.......could you be more pacific as to where in western Australia the yellow opal is found?

That's a killer stone mate! How much???

I have a Fire Opal, it’s orange red in color. I love it

Can Coober Pedy opals be treated with sugar and acid like Ansmooka matrix to achieve a darker color?

What about matrix opal?

What about fire opal?

Super

I was given a crystal opal for my 18th birthday (a long time ago) Its a really pretty 18 carat gold ring surrounded with flawless diamonds. My mum bought it in an antique shop. Recently I wanted to get the opal re-polished as I've worn the ring a lot. They told me that to polish the opal they would have to remove it from the setting and daren't do this incase they damage it. (This is in the UK). If they could of done it they would of charged me £500 which sounds like a crazy amount. I'm wondering if I should send the ring off to experts in Australia... what do you think?

What is a fire opal?

Nothing can compare to opal. My father passed recently & he loved opal hunters. Watching this made me think of him. I wish I could get a locket with an opal in remembrance of him but I'd never be able to afford it. I'm native American. Father was right, nothing compares to an opal.

I want that crystal!

I’m relatively new but purch a vintage white opal for my wife, which she LOVES. I have yet to see a black opal that blew me away as much as crystal, semi-crystal, white or dark. Black opal -weirdly- turns out to be my least favorite. I think “holograms” became widely available in the mid-1980s when I was a kid. Once humans could make holograms easily, maybe the ‘magic’ of black opal diminished and I just look for overall beauty and there’s so much beauty in crystal and white an grey (dark / semi-dark), and black just seems less interesting. My opinion, of course. 🇺🇸🇦🇺♥️

What's the difference between Citrine and the volcanic opal?

Wow!

YAY! I have all the types of Australian Opals.

great stuff im just learning and this is put together great -thanks keep going -do you have a vid about noodling?

Hi I need help... So I got this opal ring yesterday because the person that sold this ring to me said that its my lucky gemstone. She said that this opal is from Australia and it looks transparent sometimes, sometimes its opaque and sometimes it's just colourful. But what really bothers me is that the opal turns transparent right after there's water in contact with it and it releases an odor. It smells like oil if I'm not mistaken. Also once it turns transparent I could see water moving around the opal which makes me to think that it might be fake. I've never owned any gemstones so I'll really appreciate it if anyone would help me by telling me what you feel about my Opal and does natural opal reacts that way. Thank you!

Welo opal. ?

I personally find Crystal Opal to be the most beautiful of all the opals.

The volcanic opal was giving a green sheen at certain angles? Were my eyes playing a trick?

👏🏻👏🏻

I absolutely LOVE your Australian accent and when you say Opal it sounds like "Op-ole" hehe its fascinating listening to you.... and learning of course hehe

TALK ABOUT A DEFINITE BLAST FROM THE PAST!!! 8 years ago, wow!!!

okay if interested in mexican fire opals let me know .

The volcanic opal reminds me of a yellow citrine.

You look like Mr.clean

Maybe the yellow stone is a sunstone

Haha I thought the finished black opal demonstration was just an opal coloured in with a sharpie... But then you turned it over

Just like the first set of opal you show I know where to find more and it's not in lightning ridge it's in Cloncurry Queensland get back to me and I will give you the location

You forgot hard honey natural matrix

I'm hearing that Justin buys from ratters. What's that. How much do they charge? Are their opals more expensive?