Perpetuating small-town Australia's established tradition of building "big" objects to attract the tourists (banana, crayfish, pineapple etc), Coober Pedy's Big Miner is a very lanky lad – 6m of earnest metallurgy out the front of an opal shop. Are you enticed to enter?
Big Miner
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