Product Description

How and where opal is mined, its history and its lore. Grab your suitcase...we're going to Australia. Pack your love of opals and your sense of adventure. Get ready to bump over dirt roads. Climb down long ladders. Find opal...not find opal. The complete story of opal.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2076654 in Books
• Published on: 1993-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 234 pages

About the Author
During his many years as an opal dealer, Paul Downing made numerous trips to Australia, visiting all the opal fields at one time or another. His clear, concise narrative style allows the reader to bump along the dirt roads of the outback as he mines for opals. Dr. Downing is the author or 3 other opal books and has contributed to many lapidary magazines over the years.