Dwarves Earth Treasures: Agate Creek Agates, Queensland Province, Australia

Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Agate Creek(Queensland) Agates
Agate Creek, Queensland Province, Australia

You must have a "fossicking" license to dig for those small agates in a really remote semi-arid area in Northern Queensland, Australia! Most agates come in small sizes with larger ones being more scarce, and they come in quite a variety of bright colors especially red, yellow, white, blue, orange, and pink. The agates seem to be as if they come in three color combos: blue-red-white (most common), yellow-red-white, and weathered pink-white "porcelain". Some come with calcite and rare hematite inclusions.
Due to their unusually fragility (possibly somewhat opalized?) most agate roughs I obtained seem to be widely fractured, but it was said that better agates can be obtained by digging bit deeper. Even so, it's difficult to obtain any unsorted and unfractured roughs (best pieces not taken out by miners/dealers) dug from underground. Bigger an agate, more likely it will be fractured so the large and unfractured agates can commend premiums. I liked "Agate Creek Agates"(given by Australians) far better than "Queensland Agates". YOU CAN CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE LARGER PICTURES

Rough Appearance: Gray to colorful rough nodules, smooth,
Agates come in three major color combos: Red-Blue-White, Pink-White, and Orange-Yellow-White.
Such bright color combos are usually dead giveaways


Bright pink	Shadowing effect



Flame candles!	Purplish hue

Unusually large orange-yellow agate with typical fractures.

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