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Australian opal mining town on brink of collapse: miners

Kerry Hall | February 19, 2013 | 5:46 am Australia Diamond 

[caption id="attachment_699868" align="alignleft" width="300"] Polished Australian black opal[/caption] Miners in the outback town of Lightning Ridge — the site of the world's largest-known deposits of black opals — say they may have to stop mining as a result of skyrocketing costs from...

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