Unique and valuable opals valued in the thousands of dollars have been stolen from a Coober Pedy store, sparking a warning from local police about online onsales. Police are looking for opals stolen ...

About 70 per cent of the world's opals are chipped out of the ground in Coober Pedy. It's no wonder this South Australian desert town is popular with Hong Kong jewellery dealers, who wander around ...

Coober Pedy attracted more than 1000 miners hopeful of striking it lucky during its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. Even 40 years on, the Outback town’s “opal fever” remains alive and well. Locals say ...

Coober Pedy is known as the opal capital of the world, and for its quirky characters — both animal and human. Shoes in the outback opal-mining town of Coober Pedy are going missing Coober the rescue ...

Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground. Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, ...

Two men have been caught but police remain on the hunt for other suspects after thieves allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the town’s famed gems. Police have arrested and ...

However, residents instead face a huge hike in water bills – about $280 for the average property each year. Coober Pedy administrator Tim Jackson had previously flagged a rate rise of up to 32 per ...

It can get to be 127 degrees Fahrenheit in the Australian town of Coober Pedy — and that's in the shade. With opal mines that look like giant ant hills and a network of underground dwellings where ...

Based on the novel by Chris Hammer ( Scrublands ), Treasure & Dirt, is set in a dying opal town in the middle of the desert, where law and order are little more than myths. Thieves raid the mines, ...

Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Coober Pedy Fascinating opal town where most of the residents live underground Of all the opal mining towns in Australia there is none ...