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Date: March 31, 2004 at 09:07:15
From: JIm Pisani, [cpe-24-30-164-90.socal.rr.com]
Subject: Re: Mexican Black Opal?


It could be little pieces of opal or an opal simulant with a plastic cap. I've seen that before. Good Triplets usually have a quartz or glass cap, which is heavier than water. A triplet is a very thin layer of precious opal, with a black bottom, usually a black rock (obsidian, black basalt, black jade, etc.), with a clear top, all epoxied together.
I hope you didn't pay too much for it - where the other opals real?
Jim


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