$20 trillion shale oil find surrounding Coober Pedy 'can fuel Australia' SOUTH Australia is sitting on oil potentially worth more than $20 trillion, independent reports claim - enough to turn ...

The outback town of Coober Pedy's council is concerned that the town's water could become undrinkable if a plan to drill for commercial quantities of oil and gas goes ahead.

Coober Pedy's subterranean level is speckled with some of the most incandescent stone on the planet. Vibrant, too, is the life its residents have carved out of this burnt-red earth.

Originally a mining town, many of the residents of Australia's Coober Pedy live in dugouts to escape the heat. During the town's summer months, temperatures can reach 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

Coober Pedy, a small town in the southern Australian outback over 500 miles from the nearest city, is vast, flat, and arid.In the summer, the heat can climb to 113ºF in the shade, leaving the ...

The landscape in Coober Pedy is out of this world, and so is the property price growth. The South Australian outback town is about to crack a house median of $100,000 after an exponential 24.4 per ...

In the scorching Australian opal mining town of Coober Pedy, White people live in cool “dugouts” while their Aboriginal neighbors suffer above, often without AC.