CICERO, Ind. (Hamilton County Reporter) — 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 ...

Prospecting for fire opal in Queretaro, Mexico The Gem Odyssey Two gemologists, Carlos Torres and Laurent Massi, have created “The Gem Odyssey,” a company that provides private excursions to ...

Slowly she made more friends, like Martin Faggetter, who has spent the past 20 years mining for opal in the walls of his home 82 feet below the soil. "I got my own bank if I want to get a shovel ...

Slovak Opal Mines are located in the eastern Slovakia near Prešov, in cadastral area of Červenica. More than 22 km, seventeen levels of tunnels, shafts and adits were manually excavated in the ...

CICERO, Ind. (Hamilton County Reporter) — 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 ...

The Virgin Valley’s opal mines — Rainbow Ridge and Royal Peacock — are open from spring to fall and charge a fee to dig, with tourist-prospectors keeping any opals they find.

She owns the Spencer Opal Mine, the oldest and largest mine in the area. Couture’s parents bought their 40-acre claim in 1964, and the family moved to Spencer in 1968 when she was 15.

In Sight Inside the world of Australian opal miners who live underground November 16, 2016 More than 8 years ago ...