Virgin Valley Precious Opals News Blog
New Year New Hope
At the End of the year 2024, my eyes caught wood opals slabs, we have cut some years ago. Remembering that we had some pictures of it , I then went check my photos collections, sure enough I found some. Time passed by so...
Read MoreThe Beauty and Science of Wood Opals: A Study of Wood filled with opals.
Wood opals, are often confused with petrified woods, In our area is common to find Wood opal, It is literally wood like ordinary wood axcept much more older than ordinary wood, in matters of the fact they are...
Read MoreHuge Hot Sale!
We are Celebrating our 10 years of seasonal Opal mining! (These Deals will End this year!) DON’T MISS OUT! HURRY UP IT WILL LAST ONLY UNTIL 31 December 2023!) After another successful Mining season this year and in...
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Opal Mining
There are several Opal mines in Virgin Valley, Nevada within the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge....
Read MoreWire Wrapped Jewelry
Flower Pendant with Opal in the center In the very beginning of our journey to the United States, gold mining was our first goal of our adventure that we had in mind. Then we started to join a rock club to hunt and learn...
Read MoreSLAB’s WOODOPALS
Hey Guys, right now we are working on slabbed woodopals. After about 6 years on the drying shelve, we finally work on some those Opal’s slabs. It looks like we have some conk pattern on the left bottom of the pictures...
Read MoreWood Opals
Virgin Valley’s Wood Opals belong to the most unique Opals in the world. That drives us to the Valley every season. Our six years experience of mining and opals treatment shows us again and again, how beautiful Wood Opals...
Read MoreSeasonal Journey
It’s been tough for all of us, almost all year long now with this Covid Virus. We thought, first we were going to skip our journey to look for Opal this season. The Mine Board finally decided to open the Mine for...
Read MoreWinter Collections
Warm around the Neck Our winter assortment is on sale for you guys…a bit warm in the cold winter around the neck is always good, I thought… so why don’t wear a fabric necklace instead. My partner is preparing some awesome...
Read MoreHoliday is calling! Check out our Halloween collections and we still have a sale going on, too.
Halloween is almost here Don’t be afraid my dear We have sale almost all year So keep looking in here… Boo… Happy Halloween https://virginvalleypreciousopals.com/product/good-witch-bad-witch-halloween-earrings/...
Read MoreAncient Wood Opal Rescue
Following a short article, how to rescue ancient wood combined with precious Opal. It happens, that we are finding Wood that contains Opal in or around it. Some times it is very disintegrated, fibrous and very brittle. Heavily...
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