Most of the time, when people refer to a place as "being underground", they're speaking figuratively. That isn't the case in ...

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Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.

Approximately 70 percent of the world's opals come from the mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia, where half of its population lives underground. Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott/Minden ...

Beneath the desert of South Australia, a photographer finds a community of opal miners with a "crazy and unusual life." Gabriele Gouellain, a German immigrant, waits in the kitchen for her husband to ...

In Australia's opal capital, Andy Sheils goes underground searching for something much more precious than a rainbow-coloured fortune. For decades, Coober Pedy's opals have attracted travellers The ...

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 ...

A little more than 9,600 miles and nine time zones from the 18th green of the Old Course at St. Andrews, host of this week’s AIG Women’s Open, is a golf course in the outback of Australia with a ...

Coober Pedy is one of the least accessible towns in Australia – the place where the old American West meets Mars – which is probably why it gained a reputation as the place where outlaws went to hide.