Australian Opal is the largest producer of opals in the world, producing 95% of the world's opals of opal jewelry and most of them in Australia are produced in the area called Coober Pedy. Balance comes from places like Mexico, northern Brazil the US and even Africa.
In 1849 the first blocks of Opal were accidentally found in an Australian cattle station called Tarravilla. the first Opal explorers began in 1890 at White Cliff to dig Opal stones. And even today the eyes of Opal lovers are bright when someone talks about places like White Cliffs, Lightning Ridge, Andamooka or Coober Pedy: because these are popular sites for Australian Opal camps. The most famous is probably Lightning Ridge, the site of the coveted Black Opal. Andamooka, where Crystal Opal and Light Opal are brought in daylight, the cam boasts the location where Opal was probably the largest, weighing 6,843 pounds, "The Andamooka Desert Flame ".
Coober Pedy is, by the way, a word from the Aboriginal language meaning "white man in the pit". This clearly explains how Opal was actually mined: many Opal explorers made their home in deep pits or caves, to protect themselves from the scorching heat of the day and the frigid night air. They usually worked only on tolls as a pick and shovel. Buckets full of soil, hopefully containing Opal stones, were pulled to a depth of 5 to 40 feet in deep holes by hand, because this is the depth of Opal that contains cracks and holes, also dug today.
Being an Opal prospector is no longer an easy task, although today there are some technologies available, such as trucks or conveyor belts. And the prospect of enjoying a lifetime of good things in life attracts many men and women to Australia's hot, dusty region.
Mineraloid opal is an amorphous hydrated silicon dioxide, the water content of which is sometimes 20 percent higher but usually between 3 and 10 percent. Opal ranges from colorless to white, blue, gray, red, yellow, green, brown and black. Normal opal is really amorphous, but precious opal has a structural feature. The word opal comes from the Sanskrit pala, the Greek word opallios, and the Latin opalus, meaning "precious stone".
Opal mineraloid gel is subjected to low temperatures and can occur in cracks in almost any type of rock, commonly found with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, and basalt.
Opal is another mineraloid that can form or replace fossils.
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