It’s been a long road for the region’s opal miners and they’re not quite there yet in the long running battle to gain certainty around the rules governing their operations and get the industry back on track.
Kavitha Barron of The Lightning Ridge Miners’ Association (LRMA) says her group has a meeting with the NSW Mining, Geoscience and Exploration Department within weeks.
On 8 November the NSW Government released their response to the Independent Review into Small Scale Minerals Titles that was tabled in December 2024…