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 ...

Oh, and he’s also a former North Melbourne footballer who is now passing down tips he learnt from legendary VFL coach John Kennedy to the youngsters in the self-proclaimed opal mining capital of ...

Located in Australia lies a quirky underground town in the heart of the desert that is surrounded by gems worth millions. Known as the "Opal Capital of the World" Coober Pedy is a town and mining ...

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, the opal mining capital of Australia, is hurting. Has been for some years now. The halcyon days of the 1980 and ’90s, when restaurants and pubs aplenty lined the streets to service ...

“When we returned to Coober Pedy, we had our second successful detection of Opal – colour – which was amazing.” Brown said he envisions OpalAI evolving to tackle other challenges in mining ...

Coober Pedy is Australia’s equivalent of the wild west ... Photo: iStock As an opal mining town in the Great Victoria Desert, many properties in Coober Pedy are nestled underground, or dugout ...