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 ...

Traveling from Denio to Ely, and from Austin to Verdi, to on a rockhounding adventure. Discovering fire opals, garnets, fluorite and quartz in the heart of Nevada. We travel across the state from ...

What is now desert was once under water, back when giant marine reptiles swam freely in a shallow sea that would later become Nevada’s Great Basin. Major geological activity happened, making way for ...

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 ...