Mintabie was once thriving, flowing with booze, drugs, cash and some of the world’s best opals. Now it’s a smashed-up ghost town left to rot. Why? Locals and Traditional Owners demand a path forward?

The South Australian Government will terminate the town lease of Mintabie in the state's far north, after a damning report on crime in the opal mining town, but says it may not necessarily spell the ...

HE walks down into the belly of the mine with his eyes fixed on its floor, scanning for the stone he hopes will make him rich. The heat would be enough to keep most men indoors and the glare from the ...

In the baked centre of the Australian outback a once-thriving - and wild - opal mining town stands abandoned in the red dirt, four years after it was forcibly shut down. Mintabie is about 1120km north ...

In the dead heart of Australia, a once-thriving opal mining town which became plagued by drugs and violence has been completely wiped off the map - like it never even existed. Mintabie stood on baked ...

Residents in South Australia's far north have lost a battle to keep their town open and say they are now being rushed out of town before New Year's Day, despite the state's extreme heat. A report into ...

Mintabie is a small place and Davies says he has confronted the person he suspects of lighting the fire a couple of times but he says no charges have been laid. Nor have they over the pub fire. The ...