Unique and fascinating opals from around the world will complement pieces from the SA Museum, making it the largest and most valuable collection of opal ever gathered in one place. Opalised dinosaur ...

The finest opal ever unearthed will be publicly displayed for the first time at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide as part of an exhibition created to celebrate this year's centenary of opal ...

Nature continues to prove that it is the ultimate artist, crafting beauty that defies imagination. A recent discovery in ...

A beautiful opal called the Virgin Rainbow is currently on its way to an Australian museum, where it will be showcased alongside some other rare, valuable and otherwise precious items. The opal will ...

Ammolite comes from the fossilized shells of extinct squidlike critters called ammonites. Scientists knew the secret to the fossils’ flamboyant appearance lay somewhere in their layers of nacre, or ...

An Australian museum on Monday said it would exhibit what it believes is the best opal stone ever found -- a 6.0-centimetre (2.4 inch) multi-coloured gem unearthed in the Outback named the Virgin ...

In the world of jewelry, opal inhabits a space reserved for few gems. It is classified as a “mineraloid” because it lacks crystal in its mineral makeup. It doesn’t sparkle or glitter, like most ...

Red, orange, yellow, green and blue make up the contrasting colors of a 2.6 x 0.56-inch opal discovered more than a decade ago in Australia. Its contrasting colors give it the name Virgin Rainbow and ...

Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica that fills cracks in its host rock It's exactly 100 years since the teenage Willie Hutchinson stumbled across a few pieces of opal while walking in the ...