Showing posts with label opal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opal. Show all posts

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Opal 'the beauty of hardened silica gel'

 Opal is a special beautiful glittering precious gemstone. Opal gems is not like any other gemstone, its not hard enough so that it is easily dry out and break.
 Australia is the main producer of Opal since the 19th century. Other places which also produce opal are Mexico, Brazil, USA, South Africa. Indonesia, west java region, also produces very beautiful and unique opal. The special Indonesian opal called "Banten Opal". All the pictures in this article are the Unique Banten Opal.