Hand-dug 1916 opal mine turned museum, with an original underground home and self-guided tours.
One of Coober Pedy’s original mines, hand-dug in 1916 and rediscovered behind a dugout wall. Wander a genuine underground mine and miner’s home on a self-guided tour, see opal seams in the walls, and learn how the early diggers lived and worked.
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The social heart of Coober Pedy's large Croatian mining community - the Croatian Welfare & Sports Club, part of what makes this such a multicultural town.
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The town's original burial ground, used from the early 1920s - the resting place of some of the very first people to live and die on the opal fields.
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