• The American Gem Society describes fine opal as an "enchanting gem" through which some believe "the mysteries of love can be exchanged." The Gemological Institute of America says opal is the ...

Opal Amanda Stevens, 88, died May 11, 2005, at Immanuel Lutheran Home in Kalispell. She was born April 27, 1917, in Eureka, to Earl and Myrtle Rhodes. Opal and her older sister, Ruby, grew up in the ...

We three chefs of Orient are at Opal Restaurant, and that could turn out to be the problem. The trio comes bearing not gold, frankincense and myrrh, but sushi, Kobe beef and upscale, nouveau ...

— The scattershot stakes of different sizes and colors stand out among the sagebrush with nothing more than a lonely, sauntering wild horse as far as the eye can see. Over here is a 4-by-4 stake spray ...

LANDER, Wyo., March 10 (UPI) -- An opal discovery in central Wyoming has spurred a rush to file mining claims. There were 51 claims filed as of late Tuesday at the Fremont County Courthouse, Margy ...

Locals are hoping that a chance opal find near Coober Pedy will breathe new life into the town's declining mining industry. About 50 new claims have been pegged out at a site about 40 kilometres south ...

A Cape York council in far north Queensland will roll out a non-sniffable fuel to combat petrol sniffing. Aurukun Shire Council has placed a 20,000 litre order for Opal fuel. The State Government ...

"The Opal Deception," Eoin Colfer, Puffin Books; 2005; 344 pp. There's only one person on the planet who can have had more fun than I did reading "The Opal Deception" -- the guy who wrote it. Eoin ...