Australia produces roughly 95% of the world's precious opal supply, and mining is still a popular trade in Coober Pedy. However, most mining is fully mechanized today.

A kangaroo has been rescued from an open cut mine shaft in opal fields near the outback town of Coober Pedy in South Australia's far north. A member of the public spotted the animal on ...

Beneath the desert of South Australia, a photographer finds ... waits in the kitchen for her husband to return from mining. According to the Coober Pedy district council, about 60 percent of ...

A man has been taken to hospital with injuries including a fractured leg after he was rescued from a mine shaft outside Coober Pedy in South ... Pedy's Nine Mile opal field last night A person ...

A late-night search for opals ... a special mine rescue system to winch the man back to safety. In a stunning escape, the man suffered just a fractured femur. He was taken to Coober Pedy Hospital ...

The Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club ... In 2003, a visiting TV producer to Australia, who was making a documentary about opal mining, thought it was charming that such a unique remote town ...

Coober Pedy opal miner Dan Measey at his Diggers Gully claim. Picture: Dean Martin Mr Measey is one of few Coober Pedy miners who does most of his mining at night. The Unearthed Australian Opal ...

COOBER PEDY, Australia — From her front door, Sonya Crombie can see the sandstone hills where White men carved up the land in search of opal and then stayed, turning their mines into elaborate ...

The outback town of Coober Pedy, in South Australia, known for its opal mines and underground homes to shelter from the brutal desert heat, has upped its offer after failing to snag a candidate ...