Swordfish Opal Mine

Christopher Wentzell

Not much here. The old "Lockheed Dugout" is just adjacent, it is where Flora Lockheed had a dugout and where the animals were kept; they had a pipe drilled for water (in 1918-1925 this was the closest source of water to the Rainbow Ridge Mine). No opals except some small surface chips were found here by a prior claimowner in the early 1990's who believed the chips indicated a large rich deposit here, he dug holes all over but never found anything of note, and later claimed ground adjacent to Rainbow Ridge, abandoning this spot. This is where the miners culled their opal at the camp and watering hole, there was never a mine here. Interesting geology though.

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