Opal Engagement Rings - A Great Alternative to a Diamond Engagement Ring

  O pal diamond engagement ring  are a great alternative for those that do not like to follow tradition. The opal stone is mostly mined in Australia. I say mostly but I do not know of another place they come from, but I do not know everything, just a lot. As a scientist I will let you know the facts. The opal is a relatively soft gem. The diamond is ranked as a 10 on the Mohs scale while the opal is between 5 and 6. The opal is comparative to modern glass. Opals are rarer than diamonds. While diamonds are set as solitaires with prongs, most opals are set with a gold trim on the outer edge to help protect the stone. While diamonds display all the colors of the rainbow the same as a prism does with the refraction of light, the opal actually has all the colors of the rainbow in the gem itself. As one looks at an opal stone, the moment of the colour is in an unpredictable pattern and is referred to as the play of colour. When opal engagement rings are chosen as the one to give whe...