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The Old Timers Mine and Museum opens a window on the fascinating history of opal mining in Coober Pedy, revealing not only the hard physical grind and the occasional bonanza that was mining in the early days, but also an intriguing mystery at the heart of the mine.
oldtimerThe original mine dates back to 1916, but the old miners, whoever they were, concealed its existence by back-filling the shafts. The mystery is why they never returned to dig out the opal that remained. Perhaps they went to the First World War and never came home again. It was not until 1968 that the hidden mine was discovered by Ron Gough when he was digging an extension to his underground home and broke through, exposing three large seams of good quality opal, as well as opalised seashells. These have been retained and can be seen by visitors today.
The museum shows how miners, usually working alone, would dig the shafts and blast holes and winch the dug soil up to the surface, all by hand, with only candles and carbine lamps for illumination. Ron Gough was one of these miners, and it was he who realized the potential for opening the mine as a tourist attraction, his dugout (his family’s underground home) was added, being set up as a display home to show what life was like living underground from the 1920s to the 1990s.
There were many setbacks, including, in the 70s, another miner pegging a claim and blasting away, reaching the bedroom before he was stopped by court order. However, delays were eventually windlass2overcome and, with the fortuitous discovery of opal worth $50,000 just when finances were desperate, the Old Timers Mine and Museum began operating on 7th July 1987. Since then it has never looked back. Now it is one of the premier tourist attractions in Coober Pedy, having won many tourist awards for its ingenious self-guided mine tours through this historical mine (with guides written in many languages), the demonstrations of opal mining machinery and the chance for visitors to find their own piece of opal by noodling through the left over mullock heaps. Polished opal and rock specimens and opal jewellery and souvenirs are, of course, on show in the gift shop. What makes this visit to the Old Timers Mine and Museum unique for many people is seeing how miners and their families lived and worked underground.
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167 2759 WWISD "Heeresgruppen-Kommando Feldmarschall von Boroevic" Udine 1918. Privatna - obiteljska zbirka Antikvara - knjižara Saše Dmitrovića World War I WWI WW1 First World War Great War. Original photography.
Knight of Soca and Schwarzgelb General—A Hero and Villain of Slavdom
Svetozar Boroevic was born in the village of Umetic near Kostajnica on 13 December 1856. His family was Krajina Serb of the Orthodox faith. Both sides of his family had served the Croatian Military Frontier, and so young Svetozar was imbued with the traditional frontier guardsman code of loyalty to the Kaiser, honour, duty unto death, and mercilessness in combat. At the age of 14, he entered a military school as a cadet, and soon joined the infantry.
He participated in Austrian occupation of Bosnia in 1878, and received a bravery award after the storming of Sarajevo. After this, he entered and completed the Military Academy. Boroevic was transferred to the Supreme Command of the Austro-Hungarian Army and then in 1887, he became a teacher at the Military Academy for a few years before returning to the regiments. From 1904, he was commander of the Hrvatsko Domobranstvo (Croatian Home Defense), regiment No. 12. During his years of commanding, the "Domobranstvo" regiment became a real national army for the Croatians. He remained there until 1912, when he took command of the VI. Army Corps. See The Rising Star article below.
During military training in Agram in spring 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand confided to Boroevic that Croats had to be proud because their troops performed the best of any he had ever seen. Ironically, few days after this, the pro-Slav Franz Ferdinand was killed by the pro-Serb assassin Gavrilo Princip, and soon, Croatian units, including the Domobranstvo, went to war.
In August 1914, Boroevic led his VI. Army Corps on Galician Front. He turned this capable force over to GdI Artur Arz in September to pick up the collapsed 3. Army from GdK Rudolf Brudermann. As commander of the 3. Army, on 10. October 1914, his forces liberated the besieged fortress of Przemysl, driving Radko Dmitriev’s Russian 3. Army back in disarray. After a renewed Russian offsensive in early November threw a new siege around Przemysl and advanced on Krakau, Boroevic halted the Russian Army’s left near Limanowa in December 1914. His troops held positions on Carpathian ridges through a brutal winter and prevented a Russian breakthrough to Preßburg and Budapest.
In 1915, he was commander of the new 5. Army on the Isonzo Front. Because of his victories—or rather, because of his denying the Italians victory—he was nicknamed by his Croatian fellows "the Knight from Soca" (Soca or Isonzo is a river near the Italian frontier before WW1). Boroevic became famous because he stopped or stunted 11 Italian offensives and had defeated the Italian Army in the military by being a stubborn defender with often a 3-to-1 or 5-to-1 odds in favour of the attacker.
Boroevic's HQ was the only one in Austro-Hungarian Army where the official language was Croatian and Boroevic was called "our Sveto" by admiring Croatian Domobrans and Slovenian soldiers on the Italian Front. He was derided as "Bosco" by fellow officers of other armies and at Army HQ, mostly because his determined stubbornness was costing unusually high numbers of lives on the Isonzo.
It was a successful tactic, but few commanders were more willing than Boroevic to order suicidal actions for what amounted to square metres of terrain. When officers complained of his brutal casualties, Boroevic confidently replied that his command of 3. Army in the Carpathians suffered far worse casualties under his command, and yet achieved its goals. How could one argue with that?
In November 1918, he is to have said "Croatia yes, Jugoslavia no." For that, the Knight of Soca was branded the "Schwarzgelb General," a unrepentant supporter of the Habsburg Emperors, and he was banished from Jugoslavia.
Svetozar Boroevic von Bojna died 23 May 1920 in Klagenfurt, in poverty. He was buried in Vienna, in the Zentralfriedhof with all honours as Austrian Field-Marshal. Many historians and military experts think that he was the best commanding General in WWI. If his sanguinary bloodletting on the Isonzo was not considered the best, then he was definitely the most determined commander of the war.
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