Andamooka is a place that is about 600 km north of Adelaide in the outback of South Australia . Opal was found in this area around 1930 and this created a city of opal seekers. The Andamooka Opal Fields Post Office was established on January 13, 1947 and renamed Andamooka in 1990 .
For a long time the life of the place was mainly determined by opal seekers. This changed when the Olympic Dam copper-uranium mine and the associated town of Roxby Downs were built in the 1980s, as some from Andamooka go to work there. The road to Andamooka was paved in the 1990s and an aqueduct was laid from Roxby Downs , although Andamooka still draws water from cisterns or is supplied by tankers to this day . Not many people live in the earth dwellings and houses from the time of the early opal hunt, although the houses along the main road and the earth dwellings still exist. Adamooka residents now live in other buildings that were created as part of the construction and operation of Olympic Dam .
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The famous 203 gram Andamooka Opal that was found there was named after the place . The Last of the Knucklemen was filmed in the Andamooka area in the 1970s .
