The opal Mr Darby found encased in stone is known as a "Yowah nut". It's a rarity found only around Yowah in Queensland's far south-west, which is closer to South Australia than it is to Brisbane.

Jenni Brammall, a palaeontologist and chief executive of the Australian ... stone is more ominous. "The rainbow serpent is a snake, and what is a snake? It’s a devil," Aunty Brenda says. "Opal ...

Narrator: High-quality black opal can cost over $10,000 per carat, making it one of the world's most expensive gemstones ... % of the world's opal comes from Australia. And a lot of the black ...

The world covets opal but the most revered ... attached to these wonderful gemstones,” she reflects. “They are gifts from ...

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.

Street Talk can reveal the Sydney buyout firm has gained exclusivity over a 50 per cent stake in Australia’s largest residential aged care provider, Opal HealthCare, which was put up for sale in ...

In one of the toughest parts of Australia, a renegade pastoralist is trialling a bold idea to regenerate his land using feral pests. Now, he’s found himself on the wrong side of the law.

Feedback on the unit itself was positive, Ms Aquino said. The Opal Tower is home to nearly 400 apartments and was completed in mid-2018. Residents reported hearing loud banging noises on Christmas ...

Syd and Sue Hooker purchased the property on which Stone Bridge Estate is established in 1990, and planted the first vines that year. Having grown to 8 ha, the vineyards have now been rationalised to ...

Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming to an end.

Most of my current work for PCMag is about printers and projectors, but I've covered a wide variety of other subjects—in more than 4,000 pieces, over more than 40 years—including both computer ...

Narrator: High-quality black opal can cost over $10,000 per carat, making it one of the world's most expensive gemstones ... % of the world's opal comes from Australia. And a lot of the black ...