GOLD RUSH JEWELRY, BEAD AND ART COMPANYwww.opalopal.comP.O. Box 635 Fairplay, Co 80440 719-836-2143
Gold Rush Jewelry is a lapidary/jewelry internet business owned by Doc and Liz McKay of Indian Mountain, Park County, Colorado. We operate from our home/studio high the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. At 9,700 ft. elevation, we have the "highest" jewelry/lapidary studio in the United States.Our area of specialization is opal and the creation of custom jewelry. Some people find it odd that we sell Opal from the heart of Colorado. We do not think so. Ninety some-odd percent of the world's precious opal material is found in Australia, as most of the world's emeralds come from Columbia or all of the world's tanzanite comes from Tanzania. The miners sell their finds to others, either intermediaries or brokers or to dealers, like us. We buy the best quality rough that we can locate, cut it and offer the cabochons or jewelry for sale to the public via our web site at the best prices we can. We try to keep some stock in all price ranges. This opal material is created by God, mined predominately by the Aussies, and, in our case, sold in Colorado. We sell opals from Australia, Mexico, Nevada, and sometimes other locations.We do also sell opal cabochons, a few faceted stones, some carvings, a few other lapidary materials in rough and cabochon form, and jewelry. We also do custom work in all of these areas. The bulk of our business is custom jewelry including bridal sets and wedding bands. We enjoy creating one of a kind items for our customers, but we also sell standard jewelry store items. A sampling of these items is shown on our Jewelry Store Page, but we have thousands of other items available by special order. We invite you to contact us for information about any jewelry store type of item that you might desire. We can purchase almost any available jewelry item that you would normally see in a jewelry store for you and since we only special order these items we can price them extremely competitively.For more information about where we live, see our Personal Photo Album page, for more information about any of our other activities see the related pages of the web site or contact us directly.We have areas of the web site that we devote to information and answers to commonly asked questions. The jewelry related items will be discussed on the Liz/s Corner Page where you can also find a current price quote for precious metals. The opal related items will be discussed on the Doc's Corner Page where you will also find a glossary of opal terms. We also an About Opal page that will give you some basic information about opal and caring for opal.We invite you to participate in this site. You can do so:1. by sharing. If you are a knowledgeable opal cutter or jeweler, please share your wealth of knowledge with those of us who are just learning. If you would care to write a description of how to do something relating to opals or jewelry and take a few progressive photos illustrating the process, we will post them on this site.2. by contacting us with your questions and comments. We invite your comments. We want to make this a site that shows you what you want to see, gives you the information that you want, and challenges you to acquire new skills.3. by contributing to the Show and Tell section. Photograph one of your recent projects and send the photo to us by email or snail mail along with a description and we will help you Show Off your creation. Everyone likes to see the work that other people are doing. It inspires us.You are welcome to call or email us with orders, questions, information or just to get acquainted.Business PoliciesWe want you to be happy with anything that you buy from us. We want you to be happy with us. Our site and this business are set up along the following guidelines.
Our International customers can pay for their purchases using an international Visa or MasterCard or by sending an International Money Order. Please see the How To Buy From Us Page for additional information about international shipping.
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