OPAL
The famous outback township lightning Ridge in the State of New South Wales Australia is definitely a place to visit for gemstone lovers, as this location produces the exotic and rare black Opal gemstone known as the National gemstone of the state amongst the Australians, where you have fabless commendation to suit all budgets, from great motels hotels which supply meals to suit every budget from the extravagant entertaining dining-room of the Newtown hotel to the standard meals in the lounge bar. Lightning Ridge also has a huge licence club with friendly people great meals, for the traveller that is towing a trailer van there are three caravan parks right in the centre of town the capital of the black Opal industry which allows you to unhitch your trailer van freeing up your transport allowing you next day to drive during the day all around the surrounding black Opal Fields where the producers have their machinery set up and you can view the machinery working as long as you do not interfere with the machinery it is truly a great education to view a operating Opal team at work. Most of the Opal Mineral fields are with in about a 50 km radius of lightning Ridge basically south, west and north of lightning Ridge Ridge produces high-quality black Opal nobby and seem gemstones never seen anywhere else in the world . South Australia is the largest producer in the world of crystal Opal along with white Opal which is usually a lower grade then high-quality clear crystal Opal gem stones, the northern state of Australia Queensland producers large amount of lower grade bolder Opal along with some very beautiful high grade Opal found in the seams of Boulder . Lightning Ridge is definitely the place to purchase a black Opal gemstone for your collection if you are a gemstone lover or simply looking for a very unusual gemstone to purchase for your love ones, as you are purchasing direct from the producer in other words mining companies big and small independent men that spend their lives looking for a large fine of black Opal.
