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Jenny Davison2021-09-20T20:06:24+09:30Book "They Struck Opal" by E.F. Murphy "Tales of men and mines in the heyday of Australian Opal" Ted Murphy wrote about his life from when he left school in 1875 to work on a station on the Murrumbidgee River then to stations further outback. His first mining venture was for gold at Mt Brown and Milparinka then was in Wilcannia running a General Store at the end of 1889, at the time when Alf Richardson, Charlie Turner, George Hooley and W.H. Clouston arrived at Wilcannia to secure rights to mine for opal on Momba Station (which became the White Cliffs [...]
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Jenny Davison2021-06-18T10:12:22+09:30Opal Hunters The Bartrams on the Opal Fields 1936-2021 by Donald Bartram Covers opal mining in Andamooka by the Bartram family from the first visit by Walter Bartram in 1936, to Coober Pedy in the mid 1940's, to Glengarry in the 1970's, White Cliffs and Purnunga in the 1980's then back to Coober Pedy in 2016.
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Jenny Davison2020-10-29T13:36:45+10:30"South Australian Scrapbook" - Glimpses of Colourful People and Events by South Australian Writers Fellowship Page 152 - 'No Empty Desert' by Rhonda Traeger Contains extracts from Pastor Fred Traeger's Journal c.1959
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Jenny Davison2020-10-29T15:16:36+10:30" Australia the big sky country" by Coralie & Leslie Rees Chapter 3 - Opal Gougers of Coober Pedy page 16 Mentions Bert Wilson, Ettie Hall, Hilda Kent, Reg & Andy Carlaw, Don Field, Tottie & Charlie Bryant, c.1960