These People from Down Under are Literally Living Life Down Under

Mining town

Opals were valuable stones and the news spread about the small town quickly. By 1916, there were already several foreign miners in the area. The presence of outsiders started to become a normal thing.

Source: Soolide

Coober Pedy became the first new iron ore mining site in South Australia. Even until now, new groups of miners have been showing up hoping to strike their luck. To be supplying opals from then up to this very day just shows how rich the land was.