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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Lapidary
Anyone treated fairy opal before?
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<blockquote data-quote="shivan" data-source="post: 307358" data-attributes="member: 194"><p>Cheers Jukebox, its defiantly not andamooka (which from my understanding is a limestone matrix?) from what the bloke told me. </p><p>The opal in the rock seems to be in grains rather than seams or veins like the bolder opal i have seen, though you would know a lot more about opal than me.</p><p></p><p>As it was a gift to experiment with, there is no loss if i mess up. I will probably end up cooking it with sugar and treating it with opticon to stabilize. Even if i don't get the color he did on his pieces, if i can work out a decent way to stabilize for polishing it will be worth it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shivan, post: 307358, member: 194"] Cheers Jukebox, its defiantly not andamooka (which from my understanding is a limestone matrix?) from what the bloke told me. The opal in the rock seems to be in grains rather than seams or veins like the bolder opal i have seen, though you would know a lot more about opal than me. As it was a gift to experiment with, there is no loss if i mess up. I will probably end up cooking it with sugar and treating it with opticon to stabilize. Even if i don't get the color he did on his pieces, if i can work out a decent way to stabilize for polishing it will be worth it. [/QUOTE]
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Anyone treated fairy opal before?
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