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The Ottawa Citizen Tuesday, August 9, 1965 Page 14 Kurd Chatter ASK ANDY fire within a beautiful opal is caused by the bending or refrac tion of light The precious harlequin opal is a frozen blaze of pale starlight. Pastel flames of pink and blue Where To Find Onals Ontario Fruit Crops To See Light Yields By W. M. Gladish to take advantage of shopping of hard jelly of silica and water. It may form as a paper-thin lining in porous volcanic rock.

It may occur in lumps or nodules. A precious opal is usually a nodule no bigger than a hazelnut. In certain regions, these valuable nodules are found buried in bed rock. In the days of ancient Rome, all the precious opals were taken from the mines of Cserwenitsa in Hungary. Not until modern times were rich new opal fields found in Australia.

The first Australian mine discovered wis in White Cliff, New South Wales. A few years later another field was found nearby on the border of New South Wales and Queens land. In the New World, precious opals are mined in several parts of Mexico and South America and at least one precious opal has been found in Nevada and Idaho. Common opal is waxy white until we expose it to ultra violet rays. Then it glows with a green fluorescence and continues to glow for a while after the light is turned off.

Precious opals though made of the same basic minerals silica and water, come in a wide variety of colors from soft moonglow, through the bands of the rainbow to glowing coals and blazing flames. The colors are formed by spidery cracks and by impurities in the stones. The look of frozen i Drop Charges Against 53 Negroes JOHANNESBURG (Reuters)-Charges against 53 of the 76 Negroes arrested after the Sharpe-ville rioting have been withdrawn by the acting attorney general for Transvaal, P. S. Classen.

Of the 85 South African Negroes arrested after the disturbances in March during which 67 Negroes were killed only 22 still face possible charges in connection with public violence. Where do they mine opals? Some opals rate as precious gems, along with blood red rubies, misty blue sapphires and glittering diamonds. Though gem opals are rare, there are many kinds of semiprecious opal and opal minerals in the rocks of the earth's crust. Andy has a piece of petrified ginkgo wood which is opal mineral. One very common opal mineral works for us in the kitchen.

Most cleansing powders contain diatomaceous earth which is made from the shells of tiny sea dwelling diatoms. And these microscopic shells are made from silica, the same mineral which makes the precious gem opal. Silica is klso the basic mineral in quartz, sand, agate, flint, rock crystal and a host of other common and semiprecious In opal, the silica is combined with maybe somewhat more or somewhat less than ten percent of waters. The final mixture is a kind flash from a multitude of miniature tile surfaces within the stone. This opal is found in Hungary, Mexico and Honduras.

Fire opal is a frozen furnace of ruby reds and honey yellows. Precious opals from Japan are often blue, like a sunlit morning. But the most vivid of all of these gem stones is the black opal. It is said to capture the sparkle of a dewdrop, the colors of the rainbow and set them in the blackness of midnight The markets of the Ontario department of agriculture has reported a light crop of a number of fruits throughout the province this leason. Both sweet and sour cherries will be on the scarce side, it is stated, while an extremely light crop of all varieties of plums is noted and some apples will not be exactly plentiful, hence housewives are advised opportunities.

Currants, gooseberries nad raspberries, now reaching the market, are called good in quality but the volume is fair, the crop in Ontario being classified as average. Tomatoes are both plentiful and good in fact, this crop is said to be the best in some County Reports In Grenville County some fields of grain are ripening nicely, the corn crop has shown recent improvement and most hay was saved in excellent condition. Lanark grain crops are called average and pastures are in need of rain. A favorable crop situation is reported in Leeds but pastures have dried out in some areas. Harvesting of first-cut hay in Renfrew was delayed by show CJflOOl LAUREN'S NOT THE WIDOW BOGART ANY MORE Humphrey Bogart's death shattered Lauren Bacall.

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