A beautiful opal called the Virgin Rainbow is currently on its way to an Australian museum, where it will be showcased alongside some other rare, valuable and otherwise precious items. The opal will ...

Meet the "Virgin Rainbow" – perhaps the finest and certainly the most expensive opal on record. It literally glows in the dark. In fact, as it gets darker around the opal, the opal appears ever more ...

Red, orange, yellow, green and blue make up the contrasting colors of a 2.6 x 0.56-inch opal discovered more than a decade ago in Australia. Its contrasting colors give it the name Virgin Rainbow and ...

An Australian museum said today it would exhibit what it believes is the best opal stone ever found -- a 6.0-centimetre (2.4 inch) multi-coloured gem unearthed in the Outback named the Virgin Rainbow.

An Australian museum said today it would exhibit what it believes is the best opal stone ever found -- a 6.0-centimetre (2.4 inch) multi-coloured gem unearthed in the Outback named the Virgin Rainbow.

IT'S only about a long as your thumb but it's worth more than $1 million and is regarded as the finest opal ever unearthed. THE Virgin Rainbow is the centrepiece of an exhibition of opals from around ...

Thousands of people are standing in Coober Pedy's main drag, Hutchison Street, watching the parade of colourfully decorated utes crawl past. A truck painted in opal colours - a mosaic of orange, green ...