What this report is for

Home to one of the world’s great copper–uranium–gold systems, the historic Copper Coast, and most of Australia’s opal. This page begins with what is actually present in the published register, then points back to the authorities behind those records.

At review date the group comprises 3 operating. A status is the latest value ingested from the cited release; it should be rechecked with the issuer before operational, commercial or travel decisions.

Opal record map

The map makes distribution legible without implying a tenure boundary. Hover a point to identify the record; use the working list for the full source page.

Opal sites in South Australia: the register report3 plotted records
AndamookaCoober PedyMintabie
Orientation only. Points are source coordinates for published records; they are not tenure, access or regional boundaries.

Working list

3 records
AndamookaMine · SA · OperatingOpalCoober PedyMine · SA · OperatingOpalMintabieMine · SA · OperatingOpal

Sources and continuation points

  1. Geoscience Australia — OZMIN (EarthResourceML-Lite WFS)CC BY 3.0 AU · retrieved 2026-08-24

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