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Lapidary
Anyone treated fairy opal before?
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<blockquote data-quote="Keen Ken" data-source="post: 314471" data-attributes="member: 211"><p>Sorry Ian,</p><p>Just messaging someone buy the name before,</p><p>There was not a great deal where I was working. </p><p>The pipe opal occurs in gutters and the fairy opal with it on this particular field, if gutters were deep and the pipes were bright there would be some fairy opal along with them, didn't need to be much pipe opal, just good colour. The pipe opal of course is of much higher value that's what we we're chasing at the time, we kept everything as you can't tell when the next patch of pipe is going to come out.</p><p>When we came up with no reasonable pipe opal we had to treat the sandstone matrix to try and recover costs.</p><p>Yes it is beautiful but if you are trying to make a living it's very difficult to on fairy opal alone, let alone cover mining costs. </p><p>Unless you have substantial amounts of top hard material.</p><p>Areas around Opalton and Jundah have more substantial pipe opal deposits and i've been told in some places 1 foot thick and hard as concrete. </p><p>I was given some of that material and the colour was superb, it looked similar to top Amdamooka matrix in colour and pattern once carbonised.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keen Ken, post: 314471, member: 211"] Sorry Ian, Just messaging someone buy the name before, There was not a great deal where I was working. The pipe opal occurs in gutters and the fairy opal with it on this particular field, if gutters were deep and the pipes were bright there would be some fairy opal along with them, didn't need to be much pipe opal, just good colour. The pipe opal of course is of much higher value that's what we we're chasing at the time, we kept everything as you can't tell when the next patch of pipe is going to come out. When we came up with no reasonable pipe opal we had to treat the sandstone matrix to try and recover costs. Yes it is beautiful but if you are trying to make a living it's very difficult to on fairy opal alone, let alone cover mining costs. Unless you have substantial amounts of top hard material. Areas around Opalton and Jundah have more substantial pipe opal deposits and i've been told in some places 1 foot thick and hard as concrete. I was given some of that material and the colour was superb, it looked similar to top Amdamooka matrix in colour and pattern once carbonised. [/QUOTE]
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Anyone treated fairy opal before?
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