A new photos from underground opal mines

[rodney]

 

[Metamorphic]

The geological structure is always favorable for drives from shaft in opal ground.

Not much need for cross-beam support........hope you strike some mate!

If your at the face that you haven't dug, why did they stop?

Find that pocket they may have missed.

 

[rodney]

In bad ground we still have two prop I got a lot of crystal from this mine but it was very dangerous. I dug these myself if the ground is dead you have to to stop somewhere

 

[Swinging & digging]

Which opal field is this?
I have an offer to work for a few months at Lightning Ridge in 2015.

 

[rodney]

From around sheep yards about 80k from lightning Ridge

 

[Roscoe]

Thanks for the pictures Rodney. How do you get those shafts coming down so round?

 

[rodney]

Roscoe we use a 3 foot caldwell drill

 

[Jen58]

Gee.... I like the pictures, they really tell a story, I would suffer bad claustrophobia down there, specially looking back up the round entrance, spooky!!!!!!

Hope you find the mother lode...