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Rare 'Yowah nut' opal to be displayed in national museum
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<blockquote data-quote="Moneybox" data-source="post: 677966" data-attributes="member: 3960"><p>I hope the museum paid him well. That's a fabulous item to display and very rare.</p><p></p><p>We left Brisbane for the opal fields in 1975 in my brother's FJ55 LandCruiser. When we arrived at Yowah it was 104°F in the shade and there was none of that. </p><p></p><p>Merv lowered the electric window in the back of the wagon to let the dog out, he shot out and dived straight into the pond at the head of the bore, let out a yelp and shot off down the paddock. The four inch pipe flowed at 135°F, not enough to cook him but he didn't come back for more.</p><p></p><p>We were told how these Yowah nuts were formed and where we should go for a look. When we got to the mines we found the top ladder missing. That was easily fixed, being young blokes with a little imagination we just hoisted another ladder out and dropped it down from the top.</p><p></p><p>While Merv and I chipped away at the clay walls down there in the cool Mum and the dog sweated it out up top. We came away with a few of these ironstone nuts that are layered with ironstone over opal in multiple layers throughout the stone. Probably not worth much but beautiful opal just the same and a good memento of our first trip into the Queensland opal fields.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneybox, post: 677966, member: 3960"] I hope the museum paid him well. That's a fabulous item to display and very rare. We left Brisbane for the opal fields in 1975 in my brother's FJ55 LandCruiser. When we arrived at Yowah it was 104°F in the shade and there was none of that. Merv lowered the electric window in the back of the wagon to let the dog out, he shot out and dived straight into the pond at the head of the bore, let out a yelp and shot off down the paddock. The four inch pipe flowed at 135°F, not enough to cook him but he didn't come back for more. We were told how these Yowah nuts were formed and where we should go for a look. When we got to the mines we found the top ladder missing. That was easily fixed, being young blokes with a little imagination we just hoisted another ladder out and dropped it down from the top. While Merv and I chipped away at the clay walls down there in the cool Mum and the dog sweated it out up top. We came away with a few of these ironstone nuts that are layered with ironstone over opal in multiple layers throughout the stone. Probably not worth much but beautiful opal just the same and a good memento of our first trip into the Queensland opal fields. [/QUOTE]
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