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| Pty. Ltd. 26 Harries Road, Coorparoo, Qld. 4151 Australia © Copyright Len Cram 1994 © Photography and text...Author of Beautiful Australian Opals, , tiful Lightning Ridge, Beautiful Queensland Opals, and Beautiful...part of this publication may be * duced, stored in a retrieval system, fovemte-torsericccte stale Tovym...Black Opal. Contents Introduction 5 Opal History 7 Australian Opals 13 Australian Opal Geology...What is Opal? On the Trail 15 17 19 Let’s Go Hunting For Opal! 23 New South Wales Opal Fields Lightning |
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| there are ot11ers hke It, just waiting for a dose or new technology BLACK CATS AND GOLD The Golden Triangle...with it WHAT'S ON Some early bird events for the New Year SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Get your favourite magazine...Just as nch BEN HALL - THE BOLD BUSHRANGER He died in a hail of bullets but the legend of his hidden treasure...Hunters in hand A BIG CONTRY Patrick O 'Brien visits the biggest little corner or Australia LYNCH MOBS...Oueensland's Starcke Goldfield was almost hung by new chums BACK ISSUES This Is the last time many of these |
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| (OP INND ORT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2021 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive...FL Estes Park, CO ABOUT THE COVER Pictured on the front cover is a spectacular opal find from Mintabie...Mintabie, Australia, photographed by the author. The back cover pictures an opal mouse which was commissioned...commissioned by and is in the collection of Paul and Bobbi Downing. Carved by the firm of Eberhard Bank, IdarOberstein...reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of |
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| Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED .. Abbreviations: x l - crystal fl—fluoresces xled—crystallized...sure. They were all found on Kalgin Island located in the Cook Inlet, Alaska." — item and specimens from...is 12 miles long and 5 miles wide. It is located in the center of Cook Inlet about 20 miles east of Kenia...is a small fishing town located about 150 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska. On clear days you can see...SEND THEM I N . xline—crystalline on the island in the winter because there is no way to get back and |
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| (!) «: "' "' E X • 6 TEACHING AN OLD DOG NEW GOLDEN TRICKS Sany Dunn thought he'd retired to prospect...prospect for gold ...he was wrong. 10 THERE'S GOLD IN THAT THAR GRASS Forget about the one and two-cent...Sw1ncer at long last 31 WHERE TO FIND ALLUVIAL GOLD IN NSW Adapted from Doug Stone's book 'Gold Prospecting'...greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the people o f Australia 44 COOL GEMS FROM COOLAMON Coolamon Mining is...hunter's bazaar 48 LIGHTNING RIDGE IN THE '&OS How the author combined the pursuit of opal with the pursuit |
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| COLLECTOR - Entered as second-class Matter at the New York, N.Y., Post office, March 19, 1893. " VoL. X...- . . KUNZITE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A New LILAc-colorRD TRANSPARENT SpopumRNR. 4 3 By DR. GEORGE...is generally known in large opaque whitish crystals, but occasionally it appears in small specimens that...of rich lilac color, in con nection with other lithia minerals, in San Diego Co., Calif. The locality...a half from the famous rubellite and lepidolite mine at that place. Pala is already one of the most remarkable |
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| more time finding nuggets! Minelab's revolutionary new coil technology gives you the choice of DD or monoloop...Electronics Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 i'8 MINELAB Visit our website www.minelab...explains why IN THE LAPIS OF THE GODS Is it really a multi-million find of Lapis Lazuli in WA? WHAT'S ON...another 16 ounces from the latest mission WHAT'S IN A NAME A look at tourmaline and chrysoberyl SUBSCRIPTION...Minelab GP extreme AT THE LAST MOMENT A nugget just in the nick of time and a look back at the Hand of Faith |
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| Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY]...ALABAMA—W. M. Johnson, RFD 6, Knoxville, Tenn., has sent in the following item on Alabama: "Near Angel Station...miles northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONA—A letter dated Sept....crystals in Flagstaff (Coconino Co.), Arizona." Henry A. Kortum, Box 1107, Superior, Ariz., in his letter...dated Aug. 19, 1953, writes:— "An old mine near here had cavities in it that contained a sandlike mineral |
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