And a lot of the black opal is found here, at Lightning Ridge. It's located on the edge of the Outback, with a population of just over 2,000 people. Miners have been searching for opal here for ...

Nestled in the sunburnt plains of New South Wales, Australia, Lightning Ridge is a place where the ordinary and the ...

Those who choose this as a living are as rare as these opals,” said Hays, who has visited Lightning Ridge several times. The 21.65-carat "Pharaoh," which displays a "Flag Harlequin" color ...

Common opal can be found all over the world, but the precious, coloured opal of Lightning Ridge is exceedingly rare. The traditional owners of this land have a longstanding relationship with opal.

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It would change the game for at least one life-long opal miner and Lightning Ridge local. To sell, or save Butch McFadden's sprawling mining claim is like a living open-air museum.

C loaked in white dust and surrounded by expansive plains, the town of Lightning Ridge produces the bulk of the world’s precious black opal.This rare gemstone, prized for its dazzling play of ...

Lightning Ridge is well known for the black opal, for its multicultural community, for its can-do approach which built an Olympic-sized pool from community donations, but it's not so well known as ...

Bernard agrees. Back in her store in The Rocks, she hands me a ring set with a huge Lightning Ridge black opal pegged at about the same value as a one-bedroom apartment in Brisbane’s CBD ...

Jean Malki was carefully wrapping up a necklace containing more than 25 carats of fancy yellow diamonds, a rare Australian-mined Lightning Ridge black opal, and a deep-magenta Burmese ruby after a ...