Here are some photos of:
Boulder opal fields around Opalton, 125 km south west of Winton, Outback Queensland, where we mine our opals.
The Australian "bush" with animals, scenery, pictures of our mining and opal cutting equipment.
Some mining scenes in the open air and some of the tunnels we dug by hand (with electric jack pick).
Those tunnels are on average 12 metres deep underground and 2.5 metres high.
Early morning on opal field
Boulder opal country
Boulder opal country
Small opal mines
Sunset on opal field
Automatic hoist
Automatic hoist
Elisabeth going down the shaft
Elisabeth underground
Elisabeth underground with windlass
Air cooler underground
View from bottom of shaft 50 feet deep
View from top of shaft
End of gallery underground
50 feet deep underground
Underground
Entrance to ballroom underground
Hand shaft started
Elisabeth checking mullock
Elisabeth having a rest
Automatic hoist bucket 50 feet deep
Elisabeth is exhausted
Elisabeth underground
Jacky repairing the automatic hoist
Jacky and a beautiful dead tree
Starting a shaft by hand with Lubo
Jacky mining with back hoe
Jacky back filling with front end loader
Jacky back filling with front end loader
Jacky mining with back hoe
Late 1990's in Opalton
Jacky mining with back hoe
Jacky mining on Tesslar's open mine
at Bold Knob (Opalton)
Temporary mining camp in 1993
on Drago Batinic's New Luck opal mine
Elisabeth and Jacky Delarue's
old mining camp in Opalton (2000)
Elisabeth and Jacky Delarue's
mobile mining camp in Elvo 2003
Elisabeth Delarue cutting an opal
Elisabeth Delarue cutting an opal
Jacky Delarue cutting an opal with carving machine in Winton in summertime
