Opal Queen Finally Hit Black Opal | Outback Opal Hunters

after an entire season without a find kelly and her crew have finally hit black opal who's going to town today no means no celebrating celebrating's looking after your body kelly go for it go and do some exercise [Music] that's a broken stone probably a thousand dollar stone broken worst thing is you don't see it and the dicker tooth goes through it and then you've been looking for it for so long and then you smash it and it's the only one in the claim that's devastating luckily there are signs of more in the wall that's on black too get it out mate riddle with them there in it beautiful trace money i've got a thousand dollars staying in the end [Music] fossils after a disastrous last season it looks like kelly's fortunes are finally beginning to change straight in the pocket ready going have a look at these bits kelly and dwayne have a buyer due tomorrow to view their hall of black opal to make as much money as they can they need to polish the uncut stones it's always exciting to see what it is you don't know what you got until you hit it on the wheel kelly's been cutting and polishing stones since she was eight get it right she can earn the team more than double get it wrong and she could lose them everything one opal has caught kelly's attention and could be worth up to five thousand dollars if she can remove the black layer of stone close your eyes you're going to go hard on it you can't have it like that it's got to go kelly will need all her years experience to remove the black without damaging the valuable rainbow pattern beneath if it doesn't play nice and that thing doesn't come out the face of it you'd like to get 20 bucks go for it we're going for it so it's got to come out i'm just trying to get it out it's lifting isn't it without losing too much of the caliber dipping in going come on be nice come on baby you should be able to roll it out tight but lifting isn't it or is it can't count your chickens before they hatch but it's not looking too bad from where i'm standing oh that's coming up nice sprinkle twinkle oh she's pretty under there dwayne that'd be two three carrots girl oh that no that's six carrots kelly's skill has turned a thousand dollar rough stone into a six carat opal worth around five thousand dollars in its current state would have shifted 100 ton of dirt to get that one right good end result for a lot of hard work to see something that's as beautiful as what it is yeah it's awesome that's the end result you want with more gems to polish and the buyer due the next morning kelly's in for a long night how you going kelly hey carl how you going mike uh good thanks with black opal so rare local buyer carl babic is keen to see kelly's hall leading up to it there's a little bit of nerves because you're the one putting the valuation on the stone he could turn around and go you're off your head i don't believe it's worth that kelly's stones are black opal the most expensive type the greens and blues make them of medium value being semi-polished increases their price and there is a good haul bringing the total value up to 20 to 25 000 dollars i get on well with him that's not a problem but when it comes to business the business hack goes on that's what we do kelly's pretty tough she always seems to know how to um you know squeeze me for that last dollar well i came up to 20. 20. i've got an instruction to 23. it's the bottom 23 i think's just gone a little bit too far to be honest i don't really want to even add another 500 bucks so what are you looking at 22 000 i can do it 22 000. all right happy campers okay very good very good thank you very much kelly all right for me and what i do this is an ideal parcel it's got a bit of variety of everything a few you know nice pieces might even be some profit good done sold yep make the call let the boys know they should be really really happy so that's good we live to fight another day you

Channel: Aussie Gold & Opal Hunters

Views: 192,796

Rating: 4.8901324 out of 5

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Id: qcofLdQvK5c

Length: 6min 38sec (398 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021