OlympicAustralis

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NAME MEANING - A Famous Opal. As Opal buyers, John Altmann and Rudi Cherny both had an extraordinary talent for appraising a piece of rough opal and knowing exactly the quality of the opal which lay beneath the sandstone crust. In 1956 the Company purchased a bag of rough Opal which had been mined at the Eight Mile Opal field, Coober Pedy, South Australia. Amongst all the uncut stones was one huge Opal. This Opal was so unique that John and Rudi decided not to cut the Opal but to keep it whole. They named the Opal “the Olympic Australis” in honour of the Olympic Games which were held in Melbourne that same year. This amazing Opal is 99% gem Opal, weighs 17,000 carats and is 11 inches long and 4.5 inches high. They submitted the Opal to the Guinness Book of Records and they declared it the largest and most valuable gem Opal ever found. Due to the purity of this extraordinary Opal, it was estimated that if it were to be cut it would make 10,000 1 carat stones at a wholesale value of US$180 per stone, making the total value of the Opal US$1,800,000.
“The Olympic Australis” is on permanent display at the Altmann + Cherny showroom, 18 Pitt Street, Sydney.


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