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Lightning Ridge black opal fields

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

OpalOpal

Also reported: nobbies; colour in mullock at designated noodling heaps.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Cretaceous Finch Clay / Wallangulla Sandstone

The world's premier black opal field; do not fossick on someone's claim without permission.

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