The Opal Bug is an opal shop in Coober Pedy that sells everything from the gems to jewelry and watches. However, many visitors also like to visit the shop to see the famous opal-colored Volkswagen ...

“People will carve out their own bookshelves into the sandstone walls,” Michelle Provatidis, the mayor of Coober Pedy and owner of Michelle’s Opals Australia, a jewelry shop, tells ...

Yet with an estimated 70 percent of the world's opal being mined in Coober Pedy, the industry, along with tourism, still sustains the town. Gaby's husband, Jürgen, a miner, took Merino down on an ...

The iconic image of an opal miner living underground to escape the outback heat has long been synonymous with Coober Pedy. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that ...

Australia is a country defined by "the tyranny of distance," but traveling to the underground opal mining town of Coober Pedy feels like taking a holiday on Mars. In the middle of the South ...

Coober Pedy opal miner Dan Measey at his Diggers Gully claim. Picture: Dean Martin “Most visitors love the UV light and looking for the opal. We also have snakes glow, the lizards glow ...

The Opal Bug is an opal shop in Coober Pedy that sells everything from the gems to jewelry and watches. However, many visitors also like to visit the shop to see the famous opal-colored Volkswagen ...