Lightning Ridge Opal in High Definition
For more than a century, the landscape of Lightning Ridge, Australia, has been transformed by opal fever. For miles in all directions, this flat, desert-dusty land of cactus and brush is dotted with thousands of holes, with small piles of mine tailings next to them. Lightning Ridge—formerly Wallangulla, approximately 500 miles north-northwest of Sydney—is the black opal capital of t...

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