Opal Mining

Opal Mining At Lightning Ridge

 Interview with ‘Butch’ Its not often that you get an opal miner as cooperative as Butch, a long standing member of the Lightning Ridge Opal Mining community.  I have known Butch since he was a young fella wheeling and dealing in opal parcels back and forth from the Cooceran and None Mile  Opal fields, offering parcels to visiting dealers like myself during the heady days of the...