The Koroit opal field is an opal mining area in Paroo Shire in southwest Queensland

Queensland

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The Koroit opal field is located about 80 km north northwest of Cunnamulla.

It is not a town. It has neither electricity nor running water. (It should not be confused with the town of Koroit

Koroit, Victoria

Koroit is a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, north-west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area located amidst rolling green pastures on the North rim of Tower Hill. At the 2006 census,...

 in rural western Victoria

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The Koroit opal field is known for the very distinctive type of boulder opal that is found in its mines.