In 1849 the German geologist Johannes Menge discovered the first Australian Opal near Angaston, South Australia about 43 miles outside Adelaide. In the Nahuatl language opal was known as vitziziltecpatl which translates to “hummingbird stone”. In the New World Bernardino de Sahagún reported that the Aztecs mined opal in the mid-16th century in his General History of the Things of New Spain. A mining license was issued in 1597 to the opal mines in Dubník in eastern Slovakia. The first true opals were found in what is now Czechia, northern Hungary, the Slovak Republic, Romania, and Poland. Pliny used the term opalus which translates to “precious stone”. Pliny the Elder wrote about the Indian opal mines in his Natural History of the World in 77AD. Myanmar Cameroon Papua New Guinea Angola Cambodia Malaysia Kazakhstan Paraguay Portugal Iceland Oman Greece Austria Mongolia Korea (the Republic of) Morocco Unknown Mali Marshall Islands Panama Brazil Algeria Chile Colombia Ecuador Argentina Hungary Republic of Kosovo Japan Ukraine Bolivia (Plurinational State of) India New Zealand Canada Vanuatu Turkey Belgium Namibia Finland Honduras Italy South Africa Antarctica Georgia Peru Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Ethiopia Germany Tanzania, United Republic Of Afghanistan Russian Federation Fiji Viet Nam Czechia United States of America Egypt Somalia Madagascar Thailand United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Libya Costa Rica Saudi Arabia Sweden Pakistan China Poland Slovakia Bulgaria France Jordan Lithuania Serbia Romania Togo Sri Lanka Rwanda Uzbekistan Kenya Switzerland Spain Cuba Mauritania Saint Lucia Norway Denmark Mexico Zimbabwe Israel Australia Greenland Indonesia
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