Just NO to Say Prongs!

Best Practices for Setting Opals

BY CHERYL KASPER
Earth Science News

Over the years, I’ve always told my students, “If an opal is going to break, nine times out of ten, it’s going to be during or because of setting.” For decades, opal experts have advised us to avoid prongs in opal settings. But being human, we tend to...

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