all my life i've been trying to chase the ultimate gem black opal and i think we've found it i'm
justin and this is black opal direct my family have been teaching and exploring opal since 1961.
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i was a when i was a kid my dad took me up to a place where he used to live when he came in 1961
and he uh he showed me this old shack of a shed
and um that's where he used to walk out every day into the mining fields with his candle and
his pick and he used to go underground looking for opal now he found a few stones here and there but
all these years have gone by and we've been searching for the ultimate gem and never found it
i actually a friend of my dads when they went to lightning ridge in 1961 they came together and
this man who was one of my dad's great friends found this opal only one to two years ago and
you would not believe where he found the opal only six months ago this man came to me with a gem
that knocked my socks off this has got to be one of the best gem black opals
i've ever seen in my life and the story is quite unbelievable that he found this opal
underneath very close to underneath where my father lived in the shed in 1961.
it's pretty amazing i mean where you're searching we were used to
mine at the coocoran and out of the grawin and you know so many different fields and
the ultimate gem had been sitting underneath where my dad lived all this time
i um had to buy this stone
it was an absolute eye-opener for me when i first saw it um and and when i saw the opal miner
that came in actually i didn't recognize him at first he uh he i wasn't only until he gave me
his business card that i actually realized who he was and i rang him up afterwards and apologized
for not recognizing him because he's been a friend of my dad's for since 1961. it's totally amazing
so this gem it's a 10.56 carat beautiful high domed red blue gem now there is not many of those
that have ever come out of the ground with color like this this is really a once in a lifetime
stone that we will never see again what i find amazing is that it was hiding underneath my dad's
shed that he lived in in 1961. that just blows my mind and so when this opal came across my hands
i i had to own it there was there was no choice in the matter i had to buy it
because it meant so much it not only came from an area where my dad used to use a pick and candle
but it came from a person that he knew really well back in 61 when he was here mining
and the ultimate gem has now arrived
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