Country origin record

Australia

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Evidence statusPublished & sourcedLast reviewed August 18, 2026

Overview Gem relationships Sources

Evidence-backed overview

A country in the gemstone graph

Country record supporting sourced Batch 1 gemstone locations.

Bidirectional relationships

Documented gemstones

Occurrence and production are separate claims. A production label is date-bounded and does not guarantee quality, origin determination, or market value.

Current production

Opal

Published locality records document this gemstone within the country.

Current production verified in at least one locality

Open the individual locality record for the dated production evidence and scope.

Evidence[1]

Within this country

Published places

Gemstone district

Coober Pedy Opal Field

Coober Pedy is a major South Australian light-Opal field and active production center.

OpalOpen record

Gemstone district

Lightning Ridge Opal Field

Lightning Ridge in New South Wales is renowned for dark-bodied and black Opal and remains an active production center.

OpalOpen record

Gemstone district

Queensland Boulder Opal Fields

Queensland fields produce Opal seams naturally associated with ironstone matrix, including boulder Opal.

OpalOpen record

Evidence ledger

Sources & verification

Sources are deduplicated across the geographic record. Current-production claims receive explicit review dates; a map point never substitutes for geological or production evidence.

[1]
Australian Mineral Facts: Opal.
Geoscience Australia
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