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Dwarves' Earth Treasures Museum:
Agate Creek (Queensland) Agates
Agate Creek, Northern Queensland Pro., Australia
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   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 ususually fragility, 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".
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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


Typical "Red-Blue-White" color combo Typical "Pink-White" color combo Typical "Orange-yellow-white" color combo
calcite crystals between the bands, SLAB
I collected this one because it offers good clues on how agates may have formed.		 Extremely shadowy SLAB
Bright color! Shadowing effect
"Ideal" Red-White-Blue color combo
Shadowing effect		 Rare Green Chloride inclusions.
Reminds me of Wavehill Agate Rare yellow-pink-white color combo
Extremely shadowy, SLAB Rare black-gray-white color combo Rare orange-white color combo

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You can see some Agate Creek Agates for Sale at the Online Agate & Thunderegg Shop