Dean Caldwell of Cicero has been mining opal and obsidian for six months of the year in Mexico for the last 15 years. Last year, he pulled an opal out of the side of a mountain that weighs in at 1,253 ...

Outback Opal Hunters Season 6 sees familiar faces like the Bushmen and Cheals return, pushing their limits (and wallets) in treacherous digs. New tech joins the hunt, while opal thieves and harsh ...

WHITE CLIFFS, Australia -- He never planned on going underground, never figured on investing two decades tunneling through a desert ridge to build his own cool, insulated honeycomb, room by grueling ...

PERTH (mininweekly.com) – New South Wales Minister for Natural Resources Courtney Houssos has introduced an amendment to the Mining Bill to Parliament to address issues regarding the invalidity of ...