About Johno
Johno is a retired Engineer with a passion for Australian opal. This passion was triggered in his early twenties when he was lucky enough to go with a cousin to the Duck Creek and Pride of the Hills Opal mines in Queensland. It was quite a journey travelling on rough roads and tracks but eventually finding the old abandoned opal fields. They didn’t find much at Duck Creek, but they did find a large number of boulder opal chips at Pride of the Hills.
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