Opalised Pearls Imaged using DINGO

Opalised Pearl
Our neutron imaging instrument DINGO produced this image of the larger opalised pearl. 

Work performed on our DINGO neutron imaging station is featured in today's ABC News and The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide.

The world's first recorded opalised pearls, relics of creatures in an ancient inland sea dating back 65 million years, were unearthed by two miners in the South Australian outback, and have been studied, by means of neutron imaging, by Dr. Ben Grguric (South Australian Museum) and our own Floriana Salvemini.

Published: 08/02/2016

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