The lightning Ridge Opal Festival is held at Lightning Ridge on the lat Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each July , this is the largest opal festival in Australia, with a large range of wholesalers , miners and tailgaters having there opal for sale , UPALA Premium Black Opals has a stand inside each year within the new multi purpose centre with an extensive range of Black Opal from Lightning Ridge , Boulder Opal from Queensland and White Opal from White Cliffs and Coober Pedy , also an array of Opalised Fossils from all fields and specimens from Lightning Ridge and the Queensland fields .