Mr Stutley and Mr Saunders are mining a patch of land 15 miles north of the South Australian town of Coober Pedy, which is known as "the opal capital of the world". South Australia supplies 80% of ...

Legacy mining cavities were also factored into the design of a multi-million-dollar, partly underground opal centre on the other side of town. "I know that the Australian Opal Centre had some ...

Discover Australia's ancient inland seabed and Andamooka's famous opalised fossils. Explore different types of minerals, stones, and gems, learn about the formation of opal, what to look for and how ...

all of that material ended up at the Australian Museum very early." Studying palaeontology was a logical next step, and years later it motivated a move to the opal mining fields in north-west New ...

Coober Pedy is Australia’s equivalent of the wild west and the properties are among of the nation’s cheapest, but most ...

Sebastian Heffernan from Lightning Ridge Opal mines told Yahoo News that while it’s difficult to determine based on photos alone, the opals “don’t appear to be fake”. “It’s normally pretty obvious ...

The team behind the research say it indicates that Australia once had an "age of ... while they were going through the discards of an opal mine. They donated the specimens - estimated to be ...

and has been a driver behind the formation of the Australian Opal Centre. “It is endlessly delightful to see these little ...

Journey to South Australia’s desert underground mining settlement of Coober Pedy – Australia’s opal capital. The backdrop to many movies, Coober Pedy is famous for its sunbaked lunar landscape, ...

Australia, began to attract new interest in the 1960s and 1970s. Queensland boulder opal is found associated with the Winton formation, and results from deposition and dehydration of silica-rich ...