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The Koroit opal field is known for the very distinctive type of boulder opal that is found in its mines. In Queensland boulder opal is found within a 300 km wide belt of sedimentary rocks in the Winton Formation. Here opal is found as a kernel in small concretions. [1] The Koroit Opal field was discovered in 1897 by Lawrence Rostron.
Yowah is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Paroo, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the locality of Yowah had a population of 126 people.[1]The town is known for its opal mining and numerous opal fields that lie around the town as well as the "Yowah nut", a local type of opal distinctive to the region.
The Koroit Magistrates' Court closed on 15 June 1977, not having been visited by a magistrate since 1972. [6] The author Henry Handel Richardson lived in the Koroit post office as a child after her family moved to Koroit in 1878. Remembering Koroit from her youth, the third volume of her The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy is set in the town ...
Polished opal from Yowah. Adavale was the location of Australia's first opal discovery. [9] The town of Yowah is built on an opal field which began producing opals in the 1870s. [24] Opals are also found at Koroit opal field, Quilpie, Eulo and in northern New South Wales.
Other minerals mined in the state include copper, lead, silver, zinc, gold, phosphate rock, magnesite and silica sand. Gemstones such as sapphire, opal and chrysoprase are also mined in commercial quantities. Opal fields extend from the Koroit opal field in South West Queensland into New South Wales.
Map of Paroo Division and adjacent local government areas, March 1902. Gunya (Kunya, Kunja, Kurnja) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Gunya people. The Gunya language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Paroo Shire Council, taking in Cunnamulla and extending north towards Augathella, east towards Bollon and west towards Thargomindah.
The Borough of Koroit was a local government area about 18 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of Warrnambool in western Victoria, Australia. The borough covered an area of 23.07 square kilometres (8.9 sq mi) immediately to the north of the Tower Hill State Game Reserve , and existed from 1870 until 1985.
As a whole, the formation primarily consists of thinly bedded medium to fine sandstone, siltstone and mudstone, with sporadic coal seams. In the vicinity of Lightning Ridge, it is divided up into two informal members the underlying Wallangulla Sandstone Member which primarily consists of red fine grained sandstone, light siltstone and grey claystone and is up to 30 metres (98 ft) thick while ...