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Peter Blythe, the owner of Mineshaft, has had many years of professional mining experience at Mintabie Opal Fields where he discovered many pockets of opal. These pockets contained black opal, crystal opal and semi black opal. This was followed by several years of mining boulder opal in the area north west of Quilpie in Queensland. Most of the opal on display on this site has been mined and cut by Peter.

In addition to the famous Australian Opal, Mineshaft has a large range of other gemstones, gemstone jewelry, crystals, fossils and collectables.

Due to the fact that every opal is individually unique and most of the collectables are one off items, the actual product shown on this site may not always be available for purchase. If you see something you like, please send us an e mail and we will let you know the availability or send you pictures and prices of current similar stock.

Over the next six months you will see constant additions to our website. In particular, very soon, our product section will commence and evolve. We aim to have a section dedicated to the various types of opal rings, pendants and other opal jewellery. Another section will show many of the special collectables we have available. And finally there will be a section  highlighting our other gemstone jewellery.

Mineshaft is a unique store and it's products are special. This has happened because the business is run with a passion. This website will be only a glimpse of the  product available and a hint of the passion behind the business.