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Did you know a large part of Australian was once an inland sea ?
Today we had the amazing opportunity to go down the Aquarium Opal mine and help our good friend Warren.
His mine is one of few on the field where ancient opal fossils can be found regularly!
Noah and I climbed down the ladder into the mine and found him working away at the face. He had been finding trace opal and a few good stones here and there.
He handed us the tools and Noah got straight to work using a mini air jackhammer for the very first time!
It became apparent pretty quickly that we where going to have a good day, the colour showed up and went straight in the pocket!
We had some trouble with the blower getting blocked but Warren solved it without a worry. We have to get ourselves one of these!
After a relatively short day we had enough opal in the pocket and enough dirt that had good fossil potential to warrant heading back to camp and putting a load through the tumbler.
We left the tumbler going for a few hours, washing away any clay stone and together tailed out!
We got an amazing surprise finding the shells and we where very well satisfied with the seam opal!
Opal is a treasure in and of itself however having found fossils of creatures a hundred million years old replaced by opal was even more of an incredible find!
It truely doesn’t get much better then this!
I hope you all enjoy the video please leave us a comment and tell us what you would like to see more or less of.
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Each opal we sell keeps us out here digging and helps us dedicate more time to creating content!
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About Us:
Our names are Jaymin Sullivan, James Caruana and Noah Mcdonough we are the ‘Young Guns’ Opal Mining Crew from Discovery Channel tv show ‘Outback Opal Hunters.’
Our love for treasure hunting led us to quit our jobs and move to the desert in search of precious Australian Opal!
It’s a bad day to be a rock!