HEAD OF OPAL
FOSSIL DINOSAUR STRANGE QUEST ADELAIDE, July 13. No ancient hero or modern adventurer ever set his heart on finding a stranger treasure than Prosper Ralston, "the man with the harp,” who at present is in Adelaide on .a world-wide quest for opals. ' Mr Ralston intends to seek a fossil dinosaur head which he believes lies buried in a hillside somewhere near White Cliffs opalfields. There would be nothing remarkable in that—for there are fossil dinosaur, heads in most museums in the world —were it not that this head is said to.consist not of ordinary stone, but solid opal* worth at least £l2 an ounce. An amazing story lies behind Mr Ralston’s latest project. It was told to-day by Mr J. A. Allen, of Glen Osmond, who was an opal miner for 15 years, and incidentally one of the first, men on the Coober Pedy field. About 20 years ago, Mr Allen said, he was working in ,a small shaft at White Cliffs when he struck small opal fossil bones, which later were identified as the upper vertebrae' of a small dinosaur. Later an almost perfect specimen was unearthed, but the head vas missing. Mr Allen intends to go to White Cliffs with Mr Ralston in search of the head.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18769, 27 July 1935, Page 14
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212HEAD OF OPAL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18769, 27 July 1935, Page 14
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