 | Many mines have been discovered accidentally, others have been finded. As soon as the mines are found it is necessary to see as the shape or the seam goes. On having recognized the seam, is proceed to examine it and see which is the one that has more possibility of containing quality opals and of Working with these, already located the good seam has to be drilled by the sides, to not damage it. |
For auger is needed a compressor, a auger gun and different sizes augers. Realized the drill has to be loaded by the explosive to do a hole with compensated charges, already made the hole proceed to look and separate what detonation has done, once isolated the load is proceeded to search using hammers to make the big, smaller and immediately quarries.
There are occasions at which it can work a lot of time without find anything or only samples that is does not reach to support the work, since his value on the commercial market does not reach the sufficient thing to go forward with development of the mine. Often they go so far as to discover clutches of Opals , which for the miners is the payment to so much effort, determination, perseverance and patience in his work.
As soon as the opal was selected, waste, procceeds to throw oneself out of the mine there are other persons called “pepenadores” since they check what the proprietors of the mines throw, and many of these pepenadores have found opals of great quality, and what they find are for them, also there are buyers that they devote themselves to buy the product of the pepenadores for them to sell them to the workshops of existing crafts.
It is an extraordinary experience to see the Opal being born.
