Virgin Valley Precious Opals News Blog
A Living Canvas: The Story Within This Opal
There are stones you admire, and then there are stones that seem to speak. This piece of Opal belongs to the latter. At first glance, it carries the soft, earthy presence of aged wood—long, linear, almost like a memory preserved in mineral form. But as light moves…
A Galaxy You Can Hold
Discover a kaleidoscope of shifting hues captured within a single, mesmerizing stone. This genuine opal isn’t just a gem; it’s a living painting. With every movement, it reveals a hidden landscape of electric blues, fiery oranges, and neon greens. Perfect for the…
Hand-Polished freeform Opal “The Gourd”
WordPress Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Just in time for Halloween! This unique hand-polished opal has taken on the whimsical shape of a tiny gourd — almost like a glowing ghost pumpkin. Its milky translucent body glimmers with flashes of green and blue, giving…
From Ancient Forest to Shimmering Jewels: Our Latest Opalized Wood / Woodopals transformation
This month in our workshop is something truly special emerged, a striking piece of Woodopal that’s been millions of years in the making. The journey began with a raw unassuming log shape fossil. Its outer surface still carrying the textures from ancient bark and…
“The Jegeg Mexican”
Mexican fire Opal Gold-filled pendant Story to this pendant in 2023 on our last season of Opal mining we went, I tried to wirewrapped a Pearl except somehow I changed my mind and wrapped a Mexican fire Opal instead. As the final product is done, I looked at the…
Coming soon!
OPAL MINING SEASON 2025 IS ALMOST HERE! WordPress Facebook Pinterest YouTube To those opal enthusiasts out there, have fun finding opals! Opals are sometimes tricky to recorganize once they are embeded in clay and covered in clay, but when they are uncovered as shown…
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 unbelievable fast, that when I look into the…
The 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 ancient, about 15 million years old….
Latepost
Returned home from mining this year, wondering how the fairly huge Opal limb cast turned out. It is almost unrecognizable! I was looking for something black, the way I remember this opal looked like after digging it out. Apparently, it turned out white in the middle…
Huge 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 response to the bad economy and Corona impacts…