estimating the amount of oil in the as yet untapped Arckaringa Basin surrounding Coober Pedy ranging from 3.5 billion to 233 billion barrels of oil. At the higher end, this would be "several times ...

Beneath the desert of South Australia, a photographer ... hangs on the wall of an underground house in Coober Pedy. Drilling machines used to mine oil create mounds of dirt on the surface.

Coober Pedy is a small town in the Outback of Southern Australia. Many of Coober Pedy's residents live underground to escape the region's immense heat. Homes, bars, a church, and more can be found ...

Coober Pedy Opal Fields Golf Club is located in the heart of South Australia, and because of the ... of dust from a quarry mixed with waste oil, giving the surfaces their unique black complexion.

I receive a large amount of pitches and story ideas, and at least once a year a photographer will ask if we can assign them to document Coober Pedy, a remote mining outpost 800 km north of Adelaide in ...

COOBER PEDY, Australia — From her front door, Sonya Crombie can see the sandstone hills where White men carved up the land in search of opal and then stayed, turning their mines into elaborate ...