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At Lightning Ridge, palaeontologists, opal miners and fossil collectors come together to dig up precious relics
One in a billion bones becomes a fossil — even fewer turn into opal. In a pocket of north-western New South Wales, two pioneering women are uncovering relics of our deep past. In a small room of ...
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The women of the Australian outback’s black opal fields
While fossicking for opal, she noticed tiny fossils in the rocks – among them twigs, pinecones and teeth. Intrigued, she sent ...