Took A Huge Risk Cutting This Opal… Big Money On The Line

We invested huge in this 52 carat opal and we're about to find out if it pays off. Watch the video to find out how you can win your very own opal. Let's get the opal weighed in and the opal weighs 52.89 carats. Hello everyone from around the world I am Robert from Global Prospecting and we cut opals from all around the world and today we are cutting this 52.89 carat beauty from Coober Pedy, Australia and later on in the video we are giving away a beautiful opal so stay tuned and find out how you can win an amazing opal. So let's get into the opal cutting here and the first thing we're going to do is we're going around the opal and we're going to take off all the skin and we're hoping to get a few stones out of this opal so the color is kind of banded and it is a vertical bar so we're hoping that we can slice it up a little bit and capture the color maybe get two or three stones one larger size one. I really need a long teardrop so hopefully we can get that out of this stone. We're just working around the outside of the opal right now we're going to try to get all this sand and potch out of the stone and it'll give us a better then we'll take the top down and it'll give us a better idea of where we can slice the stone to capture the color that we're going to use. It's got some beautiful colors right in that little corner there if you can see if we can get the whole stone to look like that it's going to be absolutely amazing so I'm going to take some of the top off here and see if we can get there we get a little bit of a divot in the color bar let's keep working the face down here and see if we can see anything better. This is the stone uncut you can see the beautiful color up in the corner there so my plan is to try to capture that vertical bar there I don't know how deep it goes in yet we're going to be working on that and I believe we've got a couple other spots of color but once we work it down we'll be able to find out and see exactly where we're going to slice this stone you can see it has quite a bit of a quite a bit of potch on it right now and as we work that down we'll get a better picture of what we need to do. Okay this is showing us quite a bit here we can see that we have two color bars running through two vertical color bars it should be pretty easy to get those colors out of there but I'm going to continue to work it down a little bit and then we'll get on the slicing machine and see if we can capture them though this will be a test here as we go down we'll take some of the back off here work the sand off here and this will give us a better idea of what we're looking at looks like that sand goes in there pretty deep we'll keep working it down we got plenty of stone to work with I'd like to get it more cleaned up I think the further we go down the brighter the color should be there's a little chip out of the corner here you can see that color's super bright so I'm hoping that's down inside the opal and a little farther down in the bar and that we can capture that and it'll be an amazing stone if we can do that there's a lot of bars swirling through this opal but if we can get those two main bars we should be all set to get what we're looking for we'll just take a little bit more off the face here and then uh we'll put her on the slicing machine and we're probably gonna need to do two slices maybe three but I think two probably where we'll get what we're what we're looking for and later on in the video we are giving away an amazing opal this video and it is stunning wait till you guys see it and we'll let you know exactly how to enter in to winning that beautiful opal coming up a little bit later in the video all right look at the color in that chip off the tip of that stone it's absolutely beautiful I'm hoping that as we go down deeper that we definitely will have that color inside there I'm going to start working it down a little bit because I'm not sure if this is going to be our face if we're going to use this as the face or if we're going to use the top section it is a vertical bar so this may be our face of the stone because like I said I think that if we go down deeper in the color it should get uh brighter that's a good color right there I think that's going to be the face of our stone okay let's try to take this divot out try to work that divot that little indent out see what it looks like we'll just work it down slow actually I think I'm just going to leave it there and then I might slice right off the tip there I mean I might slice right at the end of it coming up okay I think we pretty much got what we want um take off a little bit more here just clean it up a little bit more and then we'll figure out how we're going to slice this and I believe this is going to be my face so we'll use this as the face I think if we go down a little bit further we'll catch those oranges and the blues and then we'll slice that little clip off right about there and see what happens see if we can uh get a few stones out of this there may be some more color on the inside and that'll that'll tell us a lot once we do the slice so let me let me mark it out and uh we'll get on the the uh the saw slice it up so right about here we'll slice and we'll get that spot right there out of there try to get catch it at a bit of an angle all right I got her marked out and we'll put a slice right down this line I'm going to do it right on the edge of the line so I can keep all the color I'm trying to save and let's see if we oh that's good perfect I'll have a couple more stones in there and this one's got a nice face perfect and this will be our second slice and we should be able to get three two smaller ones and one large gemstone and I think I'll cut the other two on our next live let's take a good look at it and I believe this is going to be our face here that'll be this will be our face and we're going to make a nice free form drop shape should come out nice plenty of color it'll thin out a little bit and then we'll make kind of uh not a uniform top we'll make it kind of uh kind of like an added angle a rounded angle and this is our second and our third stone and we're going to cut these live in our next live and we'll give these two stones away we'll cut them into gems then we'll give them away to two lucky subscribers let's just finish her up and get her on the dopping stick and get her pre-polished ready for the cerium oxide I already got the dome on her um get the setting edge a little bit better and uh fix our dome a little bit here is the beautiful opal that we are giving away this week got some beautiful colors in it this is a potential honeycomb opal it has all the care characteristics of a honeycomb opal so you may if you win this opal you may get a nice honeycomb out of it and all you need to do to be entered into winning this opal is leave a comment in the comment section of the video a like and make sure you hype the video the hype is very important and you will be entered into winning this beautiful opal that we will be giving away in our next live and we have lives every other thursday at 9 p.m eastern standard time where we will pick the winner by random comment picker so good luck and hope to see you at the live now back to the cut just getting the finishing touches on the the opal i think we'll just fix the back up a little bit and then we'll be able to get her on a dark stick and we'll move through that process and get ready for the reveal of this beautiful opal and see how she polishes up let's work the back a little bit here so and let's see how much she weighs 9.82 carats perfect and here is the completed opal it almost weighs 10 carats we didn't quite get there but leave a comment in the comment section of the video and let us know what you think of the opal that we cut today and don't forget to enter into the giveaway to be entered in to winning a beautiful opal and with potential honeycomb pattern in it and you can find out how to enter earlier in the video and thank you everybody for watching we got a new website coming out for selling opal and it should be out in the next couple of weeks we're going to have auctions and live sales and buy it nows and we also sell cutting rough on ebay you can check us out at global-prospecting.com thanks for watching everyone we hope to see you next thursday at our live we'll see you next thursday