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Our family have been opal mining since 1973. And the place to find it? They are wild and unruly.
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Coober pedy (/ ˈkuːbər ˈpiːdi /) is a town in northern south australia, 846 km (526 mi) north of adelaide on the stuart highway. The town is sometimes referred to as the opal capital of the world because. The weird and wonderful coober.
Andrew is 77 years old and still mining today.
Australia has 95% of the world’s supply of commercial opal and the largest percentage still. Aboriginal australians called it “kupa peti”, a phrase meaning ‘white man in a hole.’ more than a century later, the dusty town of coober pedy produces about 70 per cent of the world’s opal. The name coober pedy comes from the aboriginal australian kupa piti, meaning boys' waterhole. however, another type of hole has. He uses the bulldozer to open cut our claim down to about 15ft,.
Visitors to coober pedy can explore opal mines, witness the mining process firsthand, and even try their luck at “noodling,” a local term for fossicking through discarded rock piles in search of. One small chance left to make your fortune armed with nothing but your bare hands and a truckload of determination. Andrews toy is an old d9h cat bulldozer. Travel by the one and only bitumen road in or if you are prepared and have a full set up you can travel via one of several dirt desert tracks that lead to the opal capital of the world.
By the 1970s, the opal rush was in full swing.
