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Extract from the Lightning Ridge Travel Guides: The population of
LIGHTNING RIDGE
, 74km north of
Walgett
on the Castlereagh Highway (the road is fully sealed, but note that there's no place to stop for fuel between the two), is officially 4000 but unofficially it's reckoned to be about 10,000. It's a transient place, where people in their hordes pitch up in town lured by the town's one attraction: opal. Amid this harsh landscape scarred by holes and slag heaps, Lightning Ridge's opal fields are the only place in the world where the extremely valuable
black opal
can consistently be found. This lone enticement is heavily exploited by opal galleri...
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