All You Have to do is Dig

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Australia News And Information Bureau

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how opal mining has become a popular hobby in Australia and studies the 'FOSSICKERS,' professional and amateur, who live in or visit the mining towns.

Complete Record: Throughout the year “fossickers” fill the mining towns of Coober Pedy, Andamooka and Lightning Ridge in Central Australia, searching for opals to make their fortune. The professional miners with their bizarre mining machinery, the casual people and the “noodlers” - weekend searchers.