I had a necklace brought back from Australia for me. It has bright orange clear stones, what are they?
Question: I got told their nickname is "Aussie Amber". They're not like normal amber as they are very clear-like an orange boiled sweet!?
Answer: Could be citrine or whiskey topaz. Some varieties of garnet are also orange (usually called mandarin). Australia produces a lot of opals, including firey orange ones.... but opals are never clear.
they may be fire opals but they come from mexico not oz.
Among the corpses 
In one display case a great knuckle of glittering quartz set in a hammered gold ring is laid next to a necklace of Afghani turquoise and lapis lazuli. And Small's own arms are covered in bracelets. “I have stones here that I picked up when I was 17 ...
She casually took it out of my jewellery box and started pinging the stones with a tester — diamonds have very high thermal conductivity, which can be measured by a probe. To my shock, she said the 27 clear stones were diamonds. ...
