Opal Heart Necklace in USA

 If you're still young enough to remember your birthday, you probably also remember the special birthstone assigned to it. But at your age, we bet you don't really know the SIGNIFICANCE of your birthstone and what power the ancients felt would be bestowed about you by wearing it. October Birthstone: Opal Heart Necklace Birthstone Properties: Enhances insight and dispels fear Alternative Birthstone: Tourmaline Opal is the birthstone for October and the gemstone given to commemorate a 14th wedding anniversary. The word "opal" for this dynamic gemstone was derived from the Greek word "opallus" which means to see a change in color...because it is, after all, opal's ability to refract and reflect specific wavelengths of light that make it so special. In fact, there are more than a dozen varieties of fiery and iridescent opals. Opal is a non-crystallized silica, a mineral found near the earth's surface in areas where ancient geothermal hot springs once exi...

 Opal Jewelry comes in a great variety of types and styles. What we mean by 'types' is that there are at least three kinds of opal gemstone found in the outback of Australia in three basic areas. South Australia, NSW, and Queensland. But this is not a geography lesson. The focus is on that elusive and rare gem termed 'opal' which, according to historians has the meaning of 'a change of color' From what we can work out, the first type of Opal Heart Necklace found in this large continent was boulder opal and that was in the state of Queensland in the northeastern part of the country. So that this article doesn't ramble too much we will try to focus on this particular unique opal as it applies to necklaces, and leave a discussion of white opal, crystal opal, and black opal for another time. As the name suggests, Boulder Opal is often found in very large and also quite small boulder ironstones depending on the field. As the opal miner removes these stones from ...