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“Umoona has Coober Pedy”s largest range of opal gemstones and jewellery.Come and visit the Opal Mining Museum, the Aboriginal Heritage interpretive centre, a genuine heritage opal mine, dugout homes, display of fossils from SA Museum – just some of the treats Umoona has to offer!” Click Here for More Information on the Umoona Opal Mine…

“Explore a 1916 underground opal mine, museum and 1920 to 1990 home. View three large good quality opal seams, opalised seashells in the roof in their natural state, Coober Pedy”s largest painted lady opal.” Click Here for More Information on the Old Timers Mine Museum Tour [embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kpqO-5GvV8[/embedyt] [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”-29.008957,134.759633″ zoom=”6″ zoomType=”Large” zoomNew=”1″ mapType=”Hybrid”|showMaptype=”1″|overview=”1″…

“The museum has 14 rooms and houses thematic displays on the Cornish miners” lifestyles – mining, lodges and friendly societies, sports and pastimes, death and hardship, extensive displays of costumes, china, silverware, photographs and memorabilia and a classroom furnished c.1900.” Click Here for More Information on the Moonta Mines Museum [flexiblemap width=”100%” height=”500px” center=”-34.076319,137.609519″ zoom=”6″…

“The Kapunda Mine Trail is an easy walk of one and a half kilometres and takes about one hour to complete. Interpretive signs explain how the ore was once mined and treated. Kapunda Mine was the first successful commercial metal mine in Australia and together with Burra contributed to the colony”s recovery from economic crisis…