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Coober Pedy News

They Mine Their Own Business

Saturday January 16, 1999
Would the last miner to leave Coober Pedy's opal wasteland please turn off the lights? Opal mining's soldiers of fortune are trekking in droves to Lambina Station at Marla, more than 200 kilometres to the north, emptying the so-called "opal capital of the world" of most of its good ope