Another little bit of random interesting Opal news that we have come across is the following stories reported on over at AnnArbor.com. First this story reported about a safe that having been untouched in years, after finding two gold bracelets underneath it, the building owner thought that it would be worth getting it broken into to find what precious items were hidden inside. After six men with power tools and a semi-truck managed to get the massive safe, which weighed 8,500 pounds, open the treasure hunt produced a bunch of paper work and two little Opals worth $190 USD & $250. You ...

I thought I would share these lovely little references from William Shakesheare regarding opals. This is from Stanza 31 in Shakespeare's sonnet Lovers Complaint. "The diamond, why, 'twas beautiful and hard, Whereto his invis'd properties did tend, The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend; The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend With objects manifold" In Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 4, the clown says to Duke Orsino: "Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal."...

So they say that Diamonds are a girls best friend right? A lot of women do love them....so what exactly makes these stones so attractive? Well many say that its simply because the beauty of these stones reflect exactly how we see them, who can resist a diamond right? I would like to share that the Australian Opal gives many females the same sort of feeling that diamonds do. In fact if you can get both together then you are in for a real treat. Australian Opal has some amazing unique qualities that can be found as irresistible. There are a huge variety of colours and reflections with each ty...