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Andamooka:
A mining town in South Australia, situated 520km north of
Adelaide that produces precious opal and treating matrix opal. Opal was
discovered in Andamooka in 1930 in the form of floaters below what is now known
as Treloar Hill. The first opal miners of the area were Treloar and Evans, and
their first recorded production of precious opal was [...]
