Stuff that Looks Like Opal - Geological, Biological & Man-Made Opal Impostors

[@marcomagasic9108]

I bought my glasses at a road-side optometrist in Indonesia. They flash red and green in the light, so I tell people I buried them when I was in Lightning Ridge and they became opalised!

[@CuriosityMine]

Outstanding! I love it. Thank you for watching and thank you for your comment! 👓😁👍

[@ravent2631]

I've had many people ask if dichroic glass is opal while at work. I'm fairly quick to tell differences between stones, including real and imitation opal and pearl, but because I work at a thrift store and am not formally educated, I usually say "I'm fairly certain this is (item)" unless I know for sure. I do love my opals, fire agate, ammolite, moonstone and labradorite, though. (And many others)

[@CuriosityMine]

I can certainly see the similarity between dichroic glass and opal! Thanks for the comment and for helping to educate people. 😁👍

[@lydiacho9337]

Thanks for your presentation I love opal!

[@CuriosityMine]

Yong Cho thank you! And thanks for watching 😁

[@SideShowAli]

Lol the Bower bird bamboozle 😂 great video! Fire agate is pretty amazing!

[@CuriosityMine]

It’s easy to get confused! Thank you so much. 😁 I learned so much putting this together, and it was awesome to get to see so many incredible examples!

[@MrKolbersTeaching]

Great stuff! Keep up the good work!

[@CuriosityMine]

Mr Kolber's Teaching thank you very much sir! 😁👍

[@anasevi9456]

Thank you for the info and beautiful footage of the various materials. Great little doco, there is such a galaxy of iridescence and colour play out there. edit:lol...

[@CuriosityMine]

Thank you so much Ana! And thank you for watching. :D

[@AO-lq9dq]

crazy amount of information and effort put into this video. Thank you for the post

[@CuriosityMine]

Thank you so much! 😁👍

[@AO-lq9dq]

@@CuriosityMine Keep up the great work!

[@simonac688.]

Ammolite is awsome also....

[@steviewonder4639]

It's good to know that opal can be grown in the lab as in Gilson opal, but I will continue mine because there is noting man-mad as Nature can produce and I learned how nature did justthat.

[@Mass-jab-death-2025]

My favourite is Labradorite, not only is it pretty but it can guide the blind safely around the place.

[@CuriosityMine]

If you’re ever confused about the breed of a dog, you can always ask the owner, “That’s a Labrador, right?”

[@MrInsaint]

Brilliant video sir👍👍👍 and I would like to add some more to the board: Gold sheen Sapphire and Norwegian Larvikit, almost like Labradorit. I can send You a sample if You like?🤠

[@CuriosityMine]

Thanks for the comment! Larvikite looks a lot like Nuumite from Greenland. Completely different types of rock, but visually very similar. 😁

[@Altron1992]

Thanks for informing me of other beautiful stones!

[@CuriosityMine]

You’re very welcome Joseph! Thanks for watching! 😁👍

[@anamariefalk3796]

I love Labradorite so much

[@CuriosityMine]

It’s beautiful stuff! Thank you for watching. 😁👍

[@steviewonder4639]

There is a lot of man-made-synthetic opal on the Net that's not what it states it's up to individuals to discover it? I have, so you can too.

[@coreymerrill3257]

Ammolites look very metallic to me and not at all opal like . Fire agate too. In fact I am pretty sure ammolites is an agatized ammonite fossil.

[@CuriosityMine]

They have characteristics similar to opal, so to the untrained eye they can seem similar. They definitely have a silvery shimmer that opal does not. Thanks for watching. 😁

[@jjbentley9]

Love your Jurassic park shirt. I still have my huge bull t Rex toy. From the early days of Jurassic park and there toy collection. I used to have the dinosaur egg that cracked open to show baby t Rex think there was three different baby dino you could pick from. I live all the movies though.

[@CuriosityMine]

Aw man I used to have the big red T-Rex too! Is that the one that roars when you squeeze it’s chest? I still have the baby Rex, which wasn’t even in the movie. 😂

[@jjbentley9]

@@CuriosityMine that's cool I think there was several different colors t Rex. I know mine a bull t Rex and he was like a hunter green with sand color markings. Yes he had a spot that made him roar and you could feed him your action figure men. He had a slit that they would go down his throat you could get them back out through that slit. I had others too few that had spots on them that popped out to look like they had gotten bitten. I think those early movies set up a life time of being interested in fossils and crystal etc. I've collected them my hole Life nature definitely interesting if people just stop to notice her.

[@CuriosityMine]

Oh yeah! I forgot about the “battle damage” with the little rubbery jigsaw puzzle chunks of meat you could pull out! Jurassic Park is definitely a huge influence on my interest in palaeontology and prehistoric life. I only wish I’d realized that I lived in one of Australia’s most unique locations for dinosaur fossils when I was a kid.

[@jjbentley9]

@@CuriosityMine yea that would of been really cool as a kid. I live in SC we have several mines. Some are here some in north Carolina. Really big amethyst crystals. And other gems. I don't think dinosaur fossils have been found here. But you never know they do find megalodon teeth well the fossils of them anyway. Have you personally have any cool finds where you live. I've always wanted a dinosaur fossils eggs or eggnest. But unfortunately not rich.

[@CuriosityMine]

Megalodon teeth are pretty awesome, though. I haven’t found anything particularly interesting myself, but my family have been involved in the opal industry for a long time, so we’ve seen some fun things over the years. One of the more recent items was a nicely preserved opalised vertebra from (probably) a prehistoric echidna. Not a new species, but fascinating regardless! 🦔

[@tobymdev]

Silicon carbide is the best

[@carissajohnson5994]

I think i have a piece of plastic smh