Hot off the bench - Australian boulder opal pendant.

Julie has been busy at the bench. She just completed this silver pendant set with an Australian black boulder opal. The stone is 17x10 mm with a lot of life.

The pendant with a chain is $230.00

Black opals directly from Australia in sunny Lowell, Michigan.

These are the real deal - dug out of the ground in Coober Pedy.

Our opal guy, Chris, likes to call it the "armpit of Australia" because

of the furnace hot temperatures and harsh conditions.

We have opals with diamonds as well as pieces with just opals.

We recently had a lady in the showroom looking at the
opals with her friend. She and her husband had just visited Australia
a couple months previously and she told her friend that our prices
were better than some she had seen there.



The opals only come from a very limited area in Australia.
They are called "black" because the rock the opalized material is found in
is dark - not white like the traditional opals.
About 80% of all opals found in jewelry come from Australia.


If you like Australian Black Opals - or if you have never seen
them in person, then please stop in and take one for a test drive.

Australian Black Opal jewelry at Chimera Design.

We have some of the nicest Australian Black Opal

jewelry you are likely to see anywhere. (except maybe Australia.)

We have over a dozen pendants and an equal

number of rings along with 10 pair of earrings in our case today.

We have them in 14kt yellow and 14kt white gold settings.

As you may know, it is very hard (impossible) to capture the
moving beauty of black opals in a still picture.
The colors change and dance in the light.
Stop in sometime and take a look at these beauties from Australia.

Australian Black Opals at Chimera Design.

Whooo-hooo! Just got off the phone with Chris Adams, the guy we get our black opals from and he is going to let me have a pretty big selection of his opal jewelry to work with. We now have the best selection in West Michigan. Here are some samples:





Even with our great GemVision camera, there is no way to really capture the beauty of black opals with a still camera - they colors and depth change as the gemstone moves through the light.

Australian opals at Chimera Design for 3 days only.

We are going to have an excellent selection of Australian opals in our store for 3 days in October.
Loose opals, opal rings, opal earrings, and opal bracelets. Boulder opals, too!

Dates: October 16, 17, and 18 (Thursday - Saturday) 2008
We are going to have them priced to sell.
This is our fourth year hosting these phenomenally beautiful gemstones.