Diane hard at work cutting and grinding to find her opal, this process is very time consuming first you have to get the rock that has a layer of opal in it, this particular kind has a very thin line of opal running through it, there are several layers and if by chance you grind to far on one layer you usually have another one to work on, you have to be paitient and go out in the sunlight often to see that you are not grinding away to much of the opal, the sun shows up the opal really well. Once you get most of the grinding done you will see the different colours of the opal appear on your stone, it really is a beautiful site, then you can make rings or necklaces or whatever you want to show off your opal.