Wildfire Opal Found While Working Underground!

The words of House Stark ring true in White Cliffs, Winter is coming.... the cool winds begin to blow and its underground work for myself and Noah! Our investment of $2000 in the claim Hooters continues to pay dividends. with brilliant green opal trace showing in the wall my hopes where high for a good find! To better access the area I made the decision to leave the seam while I focused on shifting old timers backfill to clear a passage to our hoist/tipper. The work was hard and made difficult by the lack of space in the tunnels and my height of 6’2’’. I managed to get the majority of the old dirt up and out of the time and Noah found his way down to the opal ready to dig out! we worked slowly to extracted each piece of the precious opal until we hit some very hard ground (off camera) at which point we concluded the days operation opting to begin tumbling the opal and cleaning it up to see what we had! The material was top tier green/bl
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