Opal from Lightning Ridge
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:13 amI was forced into compulsary 2weeks leave over New Year so I decided I might as well not spend the entirety watching DVDs and playing Playstation2 - drove up to Lightning Ridge (about 40km south of the QLD border, inland), an opal mining town, to just take a look around and do a bit of fossicking. Best place to look for opal was the tailings that are dumped weekly outside the Visitors Centre.
This was probably the most densely multicoloured fragment I found. I found some larger, but they had more banding, and less specks of colour.
(Would you think a little less of me if I said I played around with saturation somewhat?)
... for fairness' sake, I guess I should probably provide a scale shot! (I was using my desk lamp as a light source)
Suffice to say, I didn't turn a profit on my mining endeavours
This was probably the most densely multicoloured fragment I found. I found some larger, but they had more banding, and less specks of colour.
(Would you think a little less of me if I said I played around with saturation somewhat?)
... for fairness' sake, I guess I should probably provide a scale shot! (I was using my desk lamp as a light source)
Suffice to say, I didn't turn a profit on my mining endeavours