Recent content by DrachenMadchen

Thanks Shauno, that's helps a lot to clear things up, and put into perspective the overall cost of everything. I have no interest in going into opal mining as a job, all I was wanting to do was go for a 'holiday' I guess you could call it with my family to one of the mining towns and try to get...

I don't plan on getting obsessed with opal mining, just it being a hobby. I hope to do aeronautical engineering as a job, so that should hopefully help. I am going into my fourth year of air force cadets, and they have taught me quite a lot of survival skills. I also do camping every year with...

Yowah is one of the closer ones. And what about it? Also Lightning Ridge in NSW is the closest to me (7 1/2 hour drive).

Hi All, I would like to start opal mining. I have no experience fossicking, prospecting or anything like that, so there is no point hiring a bunch of heavy machinery and start drilling holes, and I have now where near enough money for that anyway. Being 15 doesn't help either, but my parents...