Virgin Valley Opals

We are Celebrating our 10 years of seasonal Opal mining! After another successful Mining season this year and in response to the bad economy and Corona impacts we have drastically reduced the prices of our finished stock Woodopals. After a few very good years we...

Hey Guys, right now we are working on slabbed woodopals. After about 6 years on the drying shelve, we finally work on some those Opal's slabs. It looks like we have some conk pattern on the left bottom of the pictures below, though it has no color of play. On either...

Virgin Valley's Wood Opals belong to the most unique Opals in the world. That drives us to the Valley every season. Our six years experience of mining and opals treatment shows us again and again, how beautiful Wood Opals can be. We believe our opals have the...

It's been tough for all of us, almost all year long now with this Covid Virus. We thought, first we were going to skip our journey to look for Opal this season. The Mine Board finally decided to open the Mine for Shareholders only without opening for public, fee...

Warm around the Neck Our winter assortment is on sale for you guys…a bit warm in the cold winter around the neck is always good, I thought… so why don't wear a fabric necklace instead. My partner is preparing some awesome opals, meantime I keep learning how to use...

Following a short article, how to rescue ancient wood combined with precious Opal. It happens, that we are finding Wood that contains Opal in or around it. Some times it is very disintegrated, fibrous and very brittle. Heavily disintegrated wood, just fibers left, 10...