| September meeting |
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Guest Speaker
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Richard Holmes
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| Location: Charlotte Nature Museum 1658 Sterling Rd Charlotte, NC 28209 |
Date: June 18th
Time: 7:00 pm
times in the last 20 years and has mined black opals
for fun and profit.
Richard Holmes takes the reader into the littleknown world of the black opal: the volatile nature of the business and the people who mine and sell this product of the earth. Descending into a three-foot diameter shaft six stories down, shared by poisonous spiders and snakes, to chip at rock is not something the average person would find appealing.
The “Wild West” nature of Lightning Ridge and its part-time inhabitants will appeal to the American reader, however.
