Enclosed were pieces of petrified wood that she and her father had pilfered from the park’s Crystal Forest. After taking the rocks, Tracie wrote, they visited her sister in California, where her ...

For those concerned with issues around sourcing new wood, Los Angeles jeweller Emily P. Wheeler recommends fossilised or petrified wood as a safe bet. This is the preserved remains of ancient ...

To see if the petrified wood was actually disappearing at an alarming rate, resource managers established survey plots with a specific number of pieces of wood; some were nearly barren in less ...

In 1966 whilst staying in the opal-mining area of Andamooka,South Australia, looking for opals around the mouth of an opal mine (noodling)I found an aboriginal stone cutting implement made from ...