Curiosity Mine

All things are interesting things.

Curiosity Mine works with the amazing people of the Australian Opal Centre, the Lightning Ridge Historical Society, and other field experts and enthusiasts to create videos that entertain and educate.

03/07/2026

New video - as we venture back to the Moon, it's a good time to have a look at some wonderful objects left over from Australia's participation in the Apollo Program, some of which are part of the collection of the Tamworth Regional Astronomy and Science Centre! Special thanks to Warwick Schofield for making this possible. 😁🎥🚀

Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club has some pretty incredible artifac...

25/05/2026

In this video we look at another of Frank Thomas's wonderful inventions, this time it's his solar-powered washing machine made from a lawnmower frame and a garbage can. Gotta admire the ingenuity of the people on the opal fields! (If you enjoyed the video, please give it a share!) 😁🎥🗑️

Frank Thomas was a thinker, and an inventor, and a man who occasionally needed to wash his clothes. So, lacking a washing machine, he invented one from the t...

03/05/2026

New video from the Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club, wrapping up our series on vintage radios with a piece of paper you needed to have in order to just listen to a radio back in the 1960s! If you enjoyed this video, please consider giving it a share, it would be greatly appreciated. 😁🎥📻

1960s Streaming Service - Australian Radio License - Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club

11/04/2026

New video - for years, Jane Pye has been cataloguing and describing culturally modified trees in the Walgett/Lightning Ridge area, and she has made some discoveries that need research, recognition and hopefully protection. If you found this video interesting, please consider sharing it with your friends to help with the preservation of these incredible artefacts. 😁🎥🌳

On a remote sheep station in rural New South Wales, Jane Pye has identified thousands of culturally modified trees, including a potential new type that warra...

21/03/2026

New video in the Bush Botany series, featuring Warwick Schofield and a symbiotic forest of silver-leafed ironbark trees and spinifex grass! Also, quantum physics because connections are fun. If you enjoyed this video, please share it with your friends, it would be greatly appreciated. 😁🎥🌳

Some plant and tree species form symbiotic supportive relationships, like this example of silver-leafed ironbark and spandex grass - with a quantum physics t...

27/02/2026

New video! Back in 1969, William Shatner visited an opal mine. It wasn't a Lightning Ridge mine, it was a mine in the South Australian Opal mining town of Andamooka, but still -- Captain Kirk went opal mining! 😁🎥🖖

In 1969, just after Star Trek: The Original Series wrapped filming, William Shatner visited Australia. Among other things, he visited Andamooka, South Austra...

05/02/2026

New video in our astronomy series with Warwick from the Tamworth Regional Astronomy Club (TRAC). In this video we take a look at the de Forest Audion from 1908, one of the first radios that could carry a voice signal, and the clever technology behind it. If you enjoyed the video, please give it a share so your friends can see it too! 😁🎥📻

This is one of the first radios capable of receiving a voice transmission, using a triode vacuum tube as a very primitive but functional amplifier.🙏 Support...

10/01/2026

New video - The Lightning Flash Newspaper was an important part of life at Lightning Ridge from the late 1960s until the late 1990s. In this video we explore select editions of "The Flash", and talk about printing methods, the history of the newspaper and some of the changes to its format over the years. If you enjoyed this video, please consider sharing it! 😁🎥📰

The Lightning Flash Newspaper supported Lightning Ridge and surrounding areas for decades, with a distribution of thousands of copies, sent all over the worl...

13/12/2025

New video in which Barbara from the Lightning Ridge Historical Society shows us an ingenious motorised bicycle built from a pushbike and a whipper snipper motor, made by local inventor and problem solver Frank Thomas many years ago. If you enjoyed this video, please consider sharing it with your friends, it would be greatly appreciated! 😁🎥🚲

The opal miners of Lightning Ridge have always been inventors and problem solvers, including Frank Thomas who built (or modified) this bicycle!🙏 Support Cur...

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