Black opal mining in Australia.
Black opal mining is around the town of Lightning Australian,the town has a olympic pool and water theme park operates during the summer months a great place to cool off, or just do some swimming exercise after weeks spent behind your four-wheel-drive unwinding all the stiff muscles. Guys this truly is a high-class Olympic swimming pool construction “one not to miss why you’re out on the gem fields”.
Black opal mining is around the town of Lightning Australian,the town has a olympic pool and water theme park operates during the summer months a great place to cool off, or just do some swimming exercise after weeks spent behind your four-wheel-drive unwinding all the stiff muscles. Guys this truly is a high-class Olympic swimming pool construction “one not to miss why you’re out on the gem fields.
Black opal mining in Australia.
Map shows location of black opal mining place at lightning ridge, and many Australian opal mining locations also.
Black opal mining in Australia.
Weekend during winter months in June July check out the local rugby competition, a lot of the players on the lightning Ridge team are miners.
Free of charge when purchasing stones over $191,Graham’s jewelers will hand make professional goldsmith design jewelry to suit the gemstone purchased ,clients personal designs excepted also .
Black opal mining there’s even a golf course, maybe you will find a stone by playing golf , there’s even horse racing along with the spectacular bowling club where you will meet all the opal characters, today’s miner’s and retired miner’s also.
The club is license and has a great gaming room , extremely large room wall to wall pockier machines betting on the horse races internationally is very popular at the club.
There is a very large function room also that host so many lightning Ridge functions from live bands music etc, very late July you have the Opal Gem Expo , where the international jewelry designs have on exhibition all their latest designs , judged and rewarded accordingly . The second waterhole is down from the bowling club at the Newtown hotel motel where you can buy some stones from the miners drinking beer there.
Opal mine Graham Black opal jewelry.
Black opal mining Australia.
Do the rounds of the stores to buy a stone why you are their, they are all good value you will not get a better price anywhere in the world shopping for black gems.See is the 3 mile Road protected mining site the richest fields in the industry, the best quality ever seen where the rarest patten was first discovered the harlequin and of cause the large uncut black opal ever found was located there.
There are safe viewing ramps for the public to get a birds eye view of the history of the biggest gem open cut mine in the world. Two of the guys who found the Halley’s comet were working with me on a share venture mining lease of mine . The gemstone was found at the lunatic hill location also known by government records as the 3 mile. Which I would have to say is the richest field in the history of the industry and the highest quality gem ever seen even today . The brothers who owned the claim finally uncovered this 20 million year old gem by getting involved with a local company that provided all the earthmoving machinery and finances , as I should know as I open cut the claim next to the Guinness book of record stone in 1998 . The adjoining claims were named Scots claim, leaning tree claim revolver claim, my Opal hunter claim which I open cut .
3 mile mining location Australia.
These days there is a protected order over all these claims to preserve for future generations of Australian . The Sydney Museum will be constructing a multimillion dollar Opal Centre at the township opposite my mine claim between the 3 mile flat and lunatic hill . The Museum will have highly renowned Sydney paleontologist, will have an exhibition of many rare fossils dinosaurs etc.
And of course easter at the Ridge how could I ever forget the famous goat Festivals long weekend. Every easter Lightning Ridge heats of the goat race Championship, wild goats raced down the main street with buggies provided. 7:30am and 8:30am purchase a goat for racing, heat at 9am. Morilla Street wheelie bin races registration 7:30am-9am .
2011 Goat Races Easter without goats.
RSPCA concerns animal cruelty Festival Committee avoid drama people will dress up as goats. RSPCA and Animal Liberation people cause make trouble . Big Opal Dig which is opal dirt in the street $5000 opals secreted, dig for 1000.00s dollars of opal.
