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While opal mining around the town had slumped in the early 1940s, it picked up after a local Aboriginal woman, Tottie Bryant, discovered a large deposit in 1945. [24] In August 1956 at the 'Eight Mile' opal field, the Olympic Australis opal was found approximately 30 feet below the ground. It is the largest and one of the most valuable opals ...
The Koroit opal field is an opal mining area in Paroo Shire in South West Queensland, Australia. It is located about 80 km north northwest of Cunnamulla . It is not a town, nor should it be confused with the town of Koroit in rural western Victoria , Australia.
Yowah is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Yowah had a population of 126 people.[1]The town is known for its opal mining and numerous opal fields that lie around the town as well as the "Yowah nut", a local type of opal distinctive to the region.
Adavale was the location of Australia's first opal discovery. [9] The town of Yowah is built on an opal field which began producing opals in the 1870s. [24] Opals are also found at Koroit opal field, Quilpie, Eulo and in northern New South Wales. The geological formation containing opals in South West Queensland is called the Winton Formation. [25]
The mountains near Queenstown, Tasmania, completely denuded of vegetation through effects of mining. Australia is the world's third largest exporter of fossil fuel carbon dioxide-emissions potential. [63] “Australia mines about 57 tonnes of CO2 potential per person each year, about 10 times the global average”. [63]
Lightning Ridge is a small outback town in north-western New South Wales, Australia. Part of Walgett Shire, Lightning Ridge is situated near the southern border of Queensland, about 6 km (4 mi) east of the Castlereagh Highway. The Lightning Ridge area is a centre of the mining of black opal and other opal gemstones.
Mintabie is an opal mining community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY lands) in South Australia.It was unique in comparison to other communities situated in the APY Lands, in that its residents were largely not of Aboriginal Australian origin, and the land had been leased to the Government of South Australia for opal mining purposes since the 1980s.
Opal fields at White Cliffs. The town was established in the late 19th century when opal was discovered. Opal has been mined ever since. The first Australian opal was found 20 years before in Queensland in 1872, when a party of kangaroo hunters were operating in the White Cliffs area. One of them, who had left the party to track down a wounded ...