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Kynuna

Regional Extent Reference in the Queensland Field Explorer. Stable geology/history is separated from current visitor guidance checked 2026-09-11; no live road/open status or permission is inferred.

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Regional Extent Reference

No specimen provenance, mine status, field boundary or current access permission is inferred from this label.

Stable context

Queensland Government and Geoscience Australia use Kynuna as a northern extent reference for the western Queensland boulder-opal belt.

Current official visitor layer · checked 2026-09-11

What the reviewed official sources support now.

Kynuna is retained as a northern regional-extent reference for the western opal belt. BOU does not identify a public Kynuna fossicking site or infer mine access. Check current official land/tenure rules and roads before any activity.

Visitor guidance class

Regional extent reference only

This describes the source-backed publication scope of this BOU route. It is not a live open/closed status.

Camping

Not asserted by this route

Camping rules are stated only where the reviewed official source supports them. A camping permit never replaces a fossicking licence.

Licence + permission

Current licence required; actual land/tenure permission still matters

Where land is not specified fossicking land, current Queensland guidance can require written landholder and mining-tenure permission. Historical mining evidence is never permission.

Road / travel status

Not republished by BOU

BOU does not state a live road, weather or closure condition. Use QLDTraffic and the locality/rules pages immediately before travel.

Western opal fieldsBOU011-SRC-004 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2016-08-17Where you can fossickBOU011-SRC-002 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2025-06-19Current fossicking licence / camping permitBOU011-SRC-001 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2026-08-13Where you can fossick / permission rulesBOU011-SRC-002 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2025-06-19Personal protection and safetyBOU011-SRC-003 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2024-07-08QLDTraffic current road informationBOU011-SRC-008 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated live service

Before travel: re-check the current fossicking licence, land and mining-tenure permissions, locality-specific camping/access rules, personal safety guidance and QLDTraffic. Conditions and permissions can change after this BOU check date.

Atlas relationships

How this record connects.

Only documented regional or distance relationships are listed; the Atlas does not infer exact geographic boundaries.

  • The western opal-field corridor reaches toward Kynuna from the Winton region.

Relationship sources · BOU-SRC-003

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This field is context, not specimen provenance.

No current cabinet specimen is assigned to this field. Geological/history context must not be presented as specimen provenance.

No published specimen provenance link

Kynuna

No current specimen cabinet record is assigned to this field.

Field geology can explain the locality. It must not be reverse-engineered into origin for an unlinked stone.

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