Posted by Opal Bob Halahan on May 17, 2000 at 12:20:32:
To Peter Brusaschi
Peter,
In glancing through "Yout web sight, I found out you created it. Sounds like you are in Aust. I live in the U.S. and Len came here in 1994. We are both into the reserch and developement of opals. I spent three days with Len taking him around to the local mines in California. He was going to put together a book on "The Opals of the world." I haven't been in touch with him since. But I am sure he remembers me. My brother and I are working on the crack healing of Aust. opals. We got some opals from Barbara Mcondra from that mine that has cracky opal. One is a beautiful 35 carot opal. It was totally cracked up and as of now has only one very small crack in it. We are also able to make the fire progress in the Aust opals. When we started with Barbara, we had a process that was slow. Now we have just come up with a very fast process that reaslly works well. Haven't told barbara yet as we just came up with it. This really works. Will be looking to "Naturally" heal up more opals from Aust in the future. I know there are some opals that are qworth thousands, but may have a few cracks in them and now they are worthless. I think someone from Aust. might be interested in this. Drop me a line. I have also mined all the mines in the U.S.
Opal Bob