Lunatic Hill Open Cut

About Lunatic Hill Open Cut

This opal mine in Lightning Ridge remains a significant landmark reflecting the boom era of black opal extraction when approximately 30 claims operated on Lunatic Hill simultaneously during the late 1960s and beyond. The Barclay Brothers gained permission to open-cut the hill during that period, creating the massive excavation visible today with partially back-filled original diggings still evident along the cut edges. The site preserves tangible evidence of Australia's opal mining heritage and the intensive hand labour required to extract these rare gems.

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