Opal is normally in the top couple of feet but sometimes the opal is in the floor or the roof There is often more than one level Using a gouging pick dig around looking for potch and colour look near faults in the roof slides in the opal dirt bleached and iron stained opal dirt Precious opal and potch form in similar places
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Get PriceThe mining of this sort of opal is usually carried out using large machinery such as bulldozers or front end loaders The boulders are dug out of the open cut and then cracked open to reveal the veins of opal It is a very destructive form of mining and much opal is damaged Miners often sell these broken boulders at markets in the opal fields
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