While fossicking for opal, she noticed tiny fossils in the rocks – among them twigs, pinecones and teeth. Intrigued, she sent ...

Global demand for opals ... about 5,900 Australian dollars. Rather than tunnelling into the ground, Mr Dunstan is open-cut mining, which involves scraping away a few inches of rock with an ...

Minerals such as Pezzotaite, which was discovered in 2002, or Musgravite, the first gem-quality stone that was ... in 1946 in ...

Narrator: Miners start by drilling a vertical shaft in an area that they think contains opal. Then they must clear out an underground room large enough to start digging at the rock. Frederick ...

The Australian Opal Centre has 4000 or more fossils in its collection, worth an estimated $3 million, but with Jenni and Elizabeth the only palaeontologists on site, much of it has yet to be studied.

An Australian woman tried to grab her lost phone ... The woman was wedged between rocks near an overgrown bush track. The woman had been walking with friends on a private property in Laguna ...

Ticketmaster has been slammed by F1 fans who were informed at the last minute ticket sales for the 2025 Australian Grand Prix ... event were meant to go on sale at 12pm on Tuesday.

The pair’s sisters, Tess Madgen and Izzy Borlase, are part of the 12-player Australian women’s basketball team and will represent Australia at the Paris Olympics, beginning this month. Tess - a ...

October has two birthstones: opal and tourmaline. Opal is the traditional birthstone for October. It is believed the stone was discovered in India and given the name "upala," or "precious stone ...

The woman's friends had initially tried to free her but were unsuccessful A woman in her 20s spent seven hours hanging upside-down by her feet before being rescued after falling head-first into a ...

Narrator: Miners start by drilling a vertical shaft in an area that they think contains opal. Then they must clear out an underground room large enough to start digging at the rock. Frederick ...

When Watts and others arrived, all they could see were the woman’s feet between a 4-inch gap in the rocks. “As she’s crawled into this little hole, she slipped and slid about three meters ...