Opal
- Opal mining
Jewell Box Public Noodling Area
Free, beginner-friendly fossicking — sift through mullock heaps and keep any opal you find.
- Free
- Kid-friendly
- Opal mining
Opal Shops on Hutchison Street
The main street is lined with opal showrooms and cutters selling stones straight from the fields.
- Accessible
- Attractions
Umoona Opal Mine & Museum
Walk through a real underground mine, a museum and a preserved dugout home — one of the town's top attractions.
- Kid-friendly
- Underground
The Opal Rush: How Coober Pedy Began
From a teenager's 1915 find to the opal capital of the world — the story of the rush.