“High Country Opal is located in Spencer Idaho,
known as the Opal Capital of America. Spencer Idaho Opal is known the world
over for it's play of fire and colour. Our opal is surface mined in a pit and
although heavy equipment can be seen at the mines, it is used only to expose
the larger veins of opal for the more time consuming and tedious task of
"hard rock mining" the actual
opal from the bedrock. Most of the opal is knocked out by hand with a rock
hammer and a chisel, thus the expression "hard rock mining".
Because of the delicate nature and make up of
opal, often natural bedrock is left attached to the opal as it is transported
from the mine to be worked by hand into the finished stones and then mounted in
gold and silver jewelry. High Country
Opal is one of a handful left who still works each stone by hand in house to
ensure the highest quality in each and every opal. Each piece is cut, worked,
and mounted in house. For this reason we produce the highest quality opal
solids, doublets, triplets, boulder and matrix opal to be found anywhere in the
world - We stand behind the quality and workmanship of each and every stone!”
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