To say that The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is a sly simulacrum of a rock oral history is to acknowledge only the most obvious of this novel's achievements. Walton aspires to so much more in this ...

Narrator: Miners start by drilling a vertical shaft in an area that they think contains opal. Then they must clear out an underground room large enough to start digging at the rock. Frederick ...

Elle and more - for Dawnie Walton's "The Final Revival Of Opal And Nev." It's an oral history of the rise, fall and revival of a rock and roll duo that is so detailed, layered and compelling ...

One wall is lined with jars, filled with gray, broken rocks. The rocks are veined with flaky layers of raw opal, the same way it comes out of the mine. “This is the only place in America where ...

According to a study from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the rock formation's unique prominence and durability can partially be attributed to the presence of opal -- a gem that makes the ...

What’s up with that? A study published by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science found that Castle Rock’s prominence and durability are because it has a high opal content. “Castle Rock and ...

Mysterious "halos" of rock surrounding cracks in a Martian crater may be made of water-rich opal gemstones, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

When it evaporates, it leaves behind traces of that material that build up to form opals. Scientists have only found one other meteorite carrying the mineraloid — a rock that traveled from Mars.

further tests proved that the light rock was actually opal. Because opal is predominately composed of water and silica, the presence of this mineral could mean that there was once enough water ...