Finding the fire within

Kuranda Opals has been cutting and polishing opals for 30 years and selling them in the village for 22 years. Anton Salvaras says the fire in the opal comes from white light being refracted through water molecules.

Kuranda Opals is in the Kuranda Market Mall, Therwine St.

THE Rainbow Serpent created the colourful Australian opal, according to Dreamtime stories. And where better to see these precious gemstones than at Kuranda, where the Rainbow Serpent carved out the Barron River and the Barron Gorge? Family-owned...