Media & Speaking

Dan Measey is a second-generation opal miner, television personality and tourism operator from Coober Pedy, South Australia. Known from Discovery's Outback Opal Hunters, he runs Unearthed Australian Opal and the Unearthing Opal Experience, taking small groups night mining on his own working claim from March to November by advance booking.

Dan Measey is a second-generation opal miner, television personality and tourism operator from Coober Pedy, South Australia. Audiences know him from season 12 of Discovery's Outback Opal Hunters, New Digs. He established Unearthed Australian Opal in 2022 as an international direct-to-collector store and runs the Unearthing Opal Experience, a premium small-group night mining tour on his own working claim from March to November. Dan also pioneered Unearthing Opal Live, the first auctions anywhere to sell opal live from the mine site as it comes out of the wall, bringing the work underground directly to collectors around the world. Unearthing Opal Live was covered in the press, while Dan's work was also featured by the South Australian Government in 2022. He appeared on The Adelaide Show, episode 377. Each venture starts with Coober Pedy opal and keeps its origin visible: a working claim in Coober Pedy. The mine, store, tours and broadcasts all begin with the same material and the same place in South Australia.

Dan Measey is a second-generation opal miner, television personality and tourism operator based in Coober Pedy, South Australia. His work connects a working opal claim with audiences, visitors and collectors around the world. Viewers know Dan from season 12 of Discovery's Outback Opal Hunters, New Digs, which aired in March 2025. In 2022, he established Unearthed Australian Opal, an international direct-to-collector store for Coober Pedy opal. He later brought that direct approach underground through Unearthing Opal Live, the first auctions in the world to sell opal live from the mine site as it comes out of the wall. Dan also runs the Unearthing Opal Experience on his own working claim. From March to November, small groups join a premium night mining experience with advance booking. The setting is a real operation, and the scale and process of the work remain part of the experience. Across the mine, store, live auctions, tours and television, the approach is practical: show people the work, keep the stone connected to its origin, and keep the origin visible. Dan's work has also appeared in a 2022 South Australian Government small-business feature and on episode 377 of The Adelaide Show. Unearthing Opal Live received press coverage for taking the auction underground. The Unearthing Opal Experience runs during the Coober Pedy mining season, March through November, and requires advance booking. Guests join a premium small group on the working claim at night, connecting the finished stone with the conditions and process around its origin. Unearthed Australian Opal extends the same direct connection internationally, selling Coober Pedy opal to collectors around the world. Together, these ventures give audiences three ways into the same story: through the work on screen, a night on the claim, or a stone sent directly from Coober Pedy. His public work sits at the meeting point of regional enterprise, tourism, television and direct-to-collector retail.