Opals stolen from mines

Thieves stole precious minerals worth €50,000 as well as some mining tools.

(Source: TASR)

Opal stones worth at least €50,000 were stolen from the unique mines situated close to the village of Červenica, near Prešov in eastern Slovakia.

The mines belong to the oldest opal deposits in the world. 

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“They [the thieves] forced the iron bars on one of the shafts open,” head of the company Opálové Bane Libanka Ivan Kopor told the Pluska.sk website.

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Except for some mining tools, the thieves focused only on the precious stones. They left the rest of the mined minerals there. This proves they were well-informed, he added.

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Though the opal mines have often been a target of people who wanted to take the rare minerals with them, such an extensive robbery has not been reported for years, the Sme.sk website wrote.

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