Boulder Opals
Opal is an amazing and beautiful stone. From all the hundreds of gems from by mother nature nothing matches the unique beauty of Opal.
The word Opal comes from the Sanskrit language (an ancient language of
So why is it that out of many gemstones the Opal was chosen to be called 'precious' not diamond, ruby, emerald of sapphire but the Opal stone. The ancients who decided such things would not be clouded by commercial properganda but to put it simply... telling-it-like-it-is. Giving the Opal stone the one and only title of 'precious stone'.
Background information about Opal.
Basically it is dehydrated water (silica) where the structure of the cells is in order and in very thin layers. This causes the many different colours to form in the stone.
