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Coober Pedy, an outback Australian town, has sustained a mineral rush for Australia's national gemstone for 64 years continuously. Australia supplies the jewellery trade of the whole world with opal, and Coober Pedy produces the bulk of that.
The name Coober Pedy excites the imagination, holding the lure of fabulous treasures and untold wealth locked away and buried in the earth. But where exactly? And how can we find out? As you move through this book you are physically escorted through Coober Pedy. Its history, and much of the mystery of opal, is unmasked, its secrets revealed.
