Black Opal Motel © Navin Sam Regi
Outback Magazine; Pages 1-2 of 6. © Navin Sam Regi
Justine, award winning opal carver and processor. She owns the Opal Bin and her team have been mining the rear black opals for over 30 years. © Navin Sam Regi
Opal tours and prospecting. © Navin Sam Regi
Welcoming signage at the Grawin opal fields. © Navin Sam Regi
Pete. Tour guide, antiques collector, opal miner, leather smith and jack-of-all-trades. © Navin Sam Regi
© Navin Sam Regi
© Navin Sam Regi
“It’s just a hole in the ground.” © Navin Sam Regi
Mick and Jacob. “All we’ve got is Potch so far.” Potch is what precious opal is formed on. Majority of the common opals mined is Potch. © Navin Sam Regi
Pete Borkovic, Black opal miner. One of the very few people who can claim their place of birth on an Australian passport to be ‘Lightning Ridge.’ © Navin Sam Regi
© Navin Sam Regi
The cemetery in Lightning Ridge has many graves marked ‘unknown’. Miners found underground don’t often have identification on them or have never confided their names to another. © Navin Sam Regi
© Navin Sam Regi