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What Women Want

Posted in Fashion with tags , , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 by opalmine

Now i could sit here and tell you all about the likes and dislikes of the female members of the human family, but remember, this site is mainly focusing on jewelry, or jewellery as the English would prefer to spell it, not just likes and dislikes in general.

My wife really likes sparkly things. She’s always hanging little lights up and down and around the curtains, and waits anxiously for any excuse to turn them on. Now, we ‘blokes’ as the Auzzie’s call them, are more concerned about whether the curtains keep the sun out or give the house a measure of privacy, rather than the way they look.

And i guess, the same thing applies to jewelry. Its not that we men don’t like gemstones. As a matter of fact, i am totally fascinated, particularly with the Australian Opal. How its possible for the creator to have arranged that tiny spheres in the surface of the stone, grab various colors from the spectrum and bounce them back and forth in different patterns, as if to jam a bunch of rubies [red], emeralds [green], Citrines [yellow], amethysts [purple], sapphires [blue,yellow,green] and whatever other colored gem you could think of, all into one tiny rock.

Australian opal. All the gems rolled into one

Australian opal. All the gems rolled into one

But the ladies like to wear them, not just glare at them through the front window of a shop. The other day is saw our TV newsreader lady, displaying the most magnificent bunch of colored gems i have ever seen around one neck. The necklace was the largest feature of her outfit. It was so stunning that it took the attention away from the news, which perhaps, is not such a bad idea nowadays. [smile]

So what do women want? Jewellery wise, they want just that. and lots of it! So take notice you guys and keep looking for future articles on this blog which will enlarge on this subject drastically, and give you some pretty good tips on how to keep that girl happy with lots of sparkly things.

Welcome to Opal Experts.Com

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on December 1, 2008 by opalmine

A blog to cater for the international interests of people not only  fascinated by the stone itself, but by the amazing design potential and the endless array of patterns, shapes, and yes, even picture likenesses of living things, plants, mountains, oceans, animals, insects, celestial objects, to name a few.

Peter Brusaschi of the grandfather internet site www.opalmine.com, [1996], the sponsor and creator of this blog, has a collection of these amazing  opal picture stones which , as time allows, he will publish at this site, for the world to see.

You, our valued visitors and supporters, will be invited to ‘put in your two bobs worth’ as Australians put it, and make some of your own comments about anything related to not just opals, but jewelry design, gemstone fossicking, gemstone cutting, collecting, visits to outback gem fields, collecting, and anything else you can think of that will bring a little sparkle to your life and the lives of all other visitors.

Peter has already started making his cd ‘opals for the ordinary bloke’, which has been selling on the net for nearly 14 years now, available in sections free at this site.

Please enjoy.  www.opal-experts.com Peter Brusaschi

This is the first in a series of opal cutting articles

Posted in Learn How To Cut And Polish Opals, Market Your Opals Online with tags , , , , on October 6, 2008 by opalmine

“In the ‘old’ days, Peter used, everything it was such a big deal if you wanted to market your stones outside of the isolated ‘Land down under.’ Not only were we further away than any other country on the planet, but where the opals came from was even more isolated”, he said. To get to these ‘outback’ regions, it could take days of travel along dusty roads in the search for white, black, and boulder opal.

In those days many opal dealers would make a yearly pilgrimage, to arguably the greatest gem show on earth, Tucson Arizona, where they measure gemstones by the square acre, rather than the carat. It was a huge challenge carting heavy containers of rough opal in drums to the other side of the world.

Opal dealers, mineral collectors, jewelers, and all kinds of Rock hounds, still make these pilgrimages. Admittedly, it is something special to travel to America and meet up with an international family of gem collectors, displaying things that you would never have believed could be found in the ground.

To quote Peter, “Lazy people like me, prefer to take good pictures of whatever opals are for sale, and post them on the net. We couldn’t believe our luck when they invented the digital camera. We had lots of trouble with the old cameras, getting the light just right to capture the changing colors of this unique gemstone”.

But that was the old world, before the internet. Now, Peter’s daughter Cindy has become the photographic expert. She has taken literally thousands of amazing shots of the endless variety of colors, patterns, shapes, and sizes of this remarkable stone. Much of her work is on display at www.opalmine.com along with lots of pics of the opal mines, and outback Australia.

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