Begining Easter time with the Coober Pedy Opal Festival. Then from mid July until early August; Winton, Yowah and Lightning Ridge hold festivals and the circuit culminates with the Australian Opal Exhibition on the Gold Coast in early August.
Wooing A New Generation of Australian Opal Ambassadors July 2009Members of the opal industry donated over 50 opal prizes to the $100,000 Opal Fashion Bash 2009, held inTownsville.
Since the sponsorship began in 2008, through the National Opal Miners Association (NOMA), the Fashion Bash (a program to develop young modelling talent) has been inspiring facsination & passion for Opals.
Coober Pedy ‘Kupa Piti’ is an Aboriginal name meaning ‘White Man in a Hole’ in the language of the Kokatha people the traditional owners of the area. … Read more
The Queensland Opal fields are spread over a belt 300-400km wide with a 1000km strike. Trending in a north-westerly direction from the New South Wales border at Hungerford up to Kynuna and stretching west of Cunnamulla, Blackall and Winton out to Noccundra, Palparrara and Hamilton.
The Geology of Opal Country All the original finds throughout Australia were ‘floaters’ – pieces of opal, which had been eroded out from the horizontal … Read more
‘Legends on the Fields’ OPAL MINERS are crazed by the infection of feminine beauty that is the object of their pursuit, the ‘Queen of Gems‘ … Read more
