Known internationally as the Opal Capital of the World, Coober Pedy has a reputation for selling valuable examples of the precious gemstone. Coober Pedy locals pay three times more for water than the ...

Welcome to Coober Pedy, the town that lives underground. Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, ...

The opal mining town of Coober Pedy isn’t the first place you’d think of visiting in South Australia, but with its endless desert views and sense of freedom it’s the perfect antidote to modern-day ...

About 70 per cent of the world's opals are chipped out of the ground in Coober Pedy. It's no wonder this South Australian desert town is popular with Hong Kong jewellery dealers, who wander around ...

Coober Pedy is a different world. In fact, it looks so much like a far-off desert planet that it has stood in for Mars in a series of Hollywood blockbusters. The pink sandstone formations rising out ...

Coober Pedy attracted more than 1000 miners hopeful of striking it lucky during its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s. Even 40 years on, the Outback town’s “opal fever” remains alive and well. Locals say ...

Coober Pedy locals say they are shocked after a popular opal dealer died following an alleged altercation with another man yesterday evening. Police say they responded to reports of a disturbance in ...

Scattered around town are do-it-yourself mining operations, abandoned film props and a cafe that serves both waffles and opals. Pyramid-like mounds, a byproduct of opal mining, litter the landscape ...

Once famed for its dugouts and abundance of opals, today Coober Pedy is rich in other gems. IT’S JUST AFTER 8AM on a sharp winter’s morning. In Coober Pedy, the famed opal-mining centre 850km north of ...