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Articles Fossick for opals!Fossicking - or searching for opals on the old mine tailings which dot the landscape is a popular family activity at Lightning Ridge. Inverell, the Sapphire City, is noted for excellent fossicking too, this time for sapphires, zircons and quartz crystals. Some stones are worth thousands.  Lightning RidgeThe extraordinary opal mining town of Lightning Ridge is a place of tall tales, drills and hoists, and true outback characters. See a castle built by hand, take a dip in a hot artesian bath beneath the stars, meet the locals in a 'wild west' pub, and tour an underground mine or two. more |
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It took a few years in the early 1900's for the famous Black Opal to become acknowledged for its true quality and rare beauty. Lightning Ridge has become synonymous with Black Opal mining in Australia.