(ABC News: Nathan Morris) To date, he’s donated many of the fossils he’s found to the Australian Opal Centre. There's also the cultural gifts program, which allows miners to offset their ...

The Opals lost their first game at the Olympics Australia were stunned by Nigeria ... helped as the Opals found some rhythm and quickly got within five points with a 12-4 start to the third ...

Its symptom is a relentless pursuit of opal, which is Australia's national gemstone. For Mr Dunstan that moment happened at age 14 back in 1965 when he found his first opal. "It's a lifestyle for ...

Fossilised pieces of the animal's jaw bone were found in opal fields in northern New South ... The team behind the research say it indicates that Australia once had an "age of monotremes ...

Narrator: Opal is found in several parts of the world, including Ethiopia, Brazil, and Mexico. But over 90% of the world's opal comes from Australia. And a lot of the black opal is found here ...