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Australian Crystal Opal pendant in gold and silver

Original price was: $1,024.00.Current price is: $640.00.

 Australian Crystal Opal pendant with 9ct Rose gold rosette embellishments and a pure silver halo setting.

MATERIALS

South Australian crystal Opal weight 0.88ct
The rosettes are 9ct Rose gold
The halo and bail are pure silver

SIZE

The Opal is  7 x 5 mm oval.
The silver oval halo measures 20 x 16 mm.
The bail is 13x 3 mm.
The total length of the pendant measures 33 mm.

Description

The Australian crystal Opal pendant has 9ct Rose gold rosette embellishments with a pure silver setting. One of the magnificent beauties of nature in a single gem is the crystal, Opal. Nature provides constant surprises and wonders with gems such as this.

It is created over many years in sandstone and mudstone by water seeping through the rock and releasing silica into the groundwater. Over time it hardens and forms a gel-like substance and eventually hardens further to form Opal. The development of an Opal is more technical. The combination of time and temperature plays a part. Let’s focus on the beauty rather than the technical details. The study of a gemstone is a lifelong endeavour.

How do different colours form? Well, the silica, when it evaporates, forms a sphere; the small spheres produce blue, whereas the large spheres produce red. So it’s the size of the sphere which makes the colour. The light passes through the spheres at different angles, producing spectrum colours. More technical information is needed to explain how all this happens, but let’s not get too technical again.

The pleasure of wearing the Australian crystal Opal pendant supersedes the need desire for all the technical jargon. As the charm is worn, the movement in the Opal allows the diffraction of light through the structure of orderly spheres, which produces the ‘display of colour.’ Sounds complicated? It’s a multitude of colours of the spectrum refracting like a prism. It’s the only gemstone that diffracts light in this way.

 

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