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  2. Lightning Ridge, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Elsie May Jenkins - Wikipedia

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    Elsie "Ma" May Jenkins (née. Goodridge) (1887 – 9 September 1974) was an opal and mica miner who worked at Lightning Ridge and Coober Pedy in South Australia and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

  4. Halley's Comet Opal - Wikipedia

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    It was found at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia, by the Lunatic Hill Mining Syndicate. It weighs 1,982.5 carats (396.5 g; 13.99 oz) and is about the size of a man's fist. [ 1 ] The Halley's Comet Opal is a very fine specimen, with few flaws or blemishes and a large green and orange 1.6 cm (0.63 in) thick color bar which goes through ...

  5. Griman Creek Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Griman Creek Formation is a geological formation in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Albian-Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous. [1] It is most notable being a major source of opal, found near the town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alongside the opal opalised fossils are ...

  6. Strange Colours - Wikipedia

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    Strange Colours is a 2017 Australian film set in the opal-mining town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. It was directed by Alena Lodkina. It was directed by Alena Lodkina. Plot

  7. Walgett Shire - Wikipedia

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    The Shire is divided between the agricultural areas (producing wool, cattle, wheat and cotton), which are near the Barwon and Namoi rivers or south-east of the Barwon River, and the outback country north-west of the Barwon River, including the black opal mining and fossicking town of Lightning Ridge. Prior to 1957, when Lightning Ridge was ...