# Opal Mining Town in Australia #

Wow, I took that posting for irrelevant spam, and removed the user. But it seemed to provoke some on-topic discussion. What say you? Unwelcome spam or not?

Regards,
Mike Combs
Moderator

Erm, my point wasn't that the environments were similar,
but that the situations were similar.

In both cases, people are living in a hostile environment
far from the traditional sources of pretty much everything.
In both cases, people are making use of what the environment
provides, both to build their homes and to supply the wealth
to import what can't be made from materials on hand.