Welcome to opalholicsanonymous.com where opal season lasts forever.

You'll want to go through this issue of InColor when you've got some quiet time to sit down and relax with a cup of coffee, to savor all these gorgeous opals and absorb all the information on the types of opals from the various opal fields in Oz, complete with graphs indicating the levels they're at in the various types of base rock, as well as how they form, and so much more. Opalholics should have enough opal fixes here to last you a whole month or so.

Oh, and better break out the bibs now because if these don't get you salivating you're not really an opalholic, and should probably switch to boring diamonds. Enjoy!

ICA kick-starts 2019 with an issue featuring Australian Opal including highlights of the 9th Annual National Opal Symposium, Australian opal mining and the Innovative Reference Sets developed by ICA Member Cody Opal.

It includes articles about coloration mechanisms of Padparadscha, Pantone's color of the year, Living Coral, and the latest from global gem and jewelry auctions and industry trade shows.

https://www.gemstone.org/incolor/41/

That was fun.

great stuff ! some nice opals and some good info which will help me with my opal research

..but there is a lot I don't like (what/how they did it) and don't agree with
there is too much too talk but I will come back to that

btw. I wonder what some of you think about new 'opal classification' (>p.24-25) and new 'master reference sets' (>p.82-84)

Thanks for sharing. It led to me looking for the 1985 article. Seems it is going to be "permeable and mined here" for the win. If they were included, I sold them the Virgin Valley precious black fire opal samples. I didnt have the effort/skill to process 60 matching cabs of all the sorts of opal that comes from here, black white, fire matrix and priced up front. I sold them strangest gemmiest stuff i had done that had been proven stable, well not whitening or crazing for a decade, material. True precious black fire opal.