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New South Wales
Coocoran opal field
Opal field Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
OpalPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Dpulitzer (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Black opal country on the Coocoran ridges west of Lightning Ridge, heavily worked in the 1990s
Well documented extension of the Lightning Ridge fields in opal literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open shafts, heat
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.