How do I buy a good opal?

How to Pick Out a Precious Opal for Purchase

1. What type of opal it is.
2. Compare, compare, compare.
3. Determine the quality of the opal.
4. Choose an opal that you love and one that goes with your skin tones.
5. Consider the brilliance of the opal.
6. Always get a certificate of authenticity.
7. Take advantage of paying no GST.

How do you choose opal jewelry?

When purchasing Opal jewelry, you must consider the Opal’s kind, extent, luster, tone and pattern. As with any gemstone it typically comes down to selecting a color of Opal that you may find striking and that sustains your budget as well.

What’s the best opal to buy?

Black opals
Black opals are generally considered to be the best in the world due to their dark body tone. Boulder opals are the much lesser known cousin of the black opal, but they can have equally stunning colour.

Are opals worth buying?

Opals are a great investment, because they’re only getting rarer, and they can diversify your portfolio providing a safe and real investment you can touch. At the Good Opal co. All opals priced over $500 are considered an investment and come with a certificate of authenticity and grading.

Which Colour opal is best?

Valuing Opal Brightness – brightest is best. Colour – purple is the most common colour, then blue, then green, through gold then orange to red, which is the most rare and therefore valued most highly. Pattern – some patterns, like Chinese Writing or Harlequin, are more rare than others, like Pinfire.

Is opal a good investment?

What does fake opal look like?

Know what real opal looks like, and compare what you have seen to what you are buying. People have been known to set coloured tinsel or foil underneath clear plastic to make an ‘imitation opal’. Look closely at the pattern – Opal created in a laboratory (Gilson opal), displays bright colours in large patches of colour.