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ABC News - Income of 850 opal miners in doubt after government admin error invalidates mining licences

"More than 850 small-scale opal miners in Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs have been granted invalid mining licences."
Rehabilitation of Lightning Ridge?
abc.net.au/news/2023-05-24/gov
SurfaceDisturbance

#opals #mining #regulation #nsw #erosion #compaction #heavymachinery #vegetationclearing #moonscape #legacy

Last updated 1 year ago
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Liminal Fiction · @liminalfiction
548 followers · 539 posts · Server mastodon.otherworldsink.com
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How cool is this? :P

WRITER FUEL: The discovery of opals in a Martian crater could mean that water interacted with the surface much more recently than was previously thought.

limfic.com/2023/02/08/writer-f

#water #curiosityrover #nasa #opals #mars #writerfuel

Last updated 2 years ago
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Soh Kam Yung · @sohkamyung
556 followers · 11288 posts · Server mstdn.io

On Fostoria dhimbangunmal, a newly described Australian iguanodontian dinosaur, whose bones have been opalized.

smithsonianmag.com/science-nat

@galacticstone

#australia #fossils #dinosaurs #opals

Last updated 6 years ago
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