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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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| Rare Purple-Yellow color combo
with interlayed calcite band. |
Outstanding Orange-yellow Color Combo |
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| Outstanding White-Red-Yellow Color Combo | Orange "Flame" in the dark
Looks like Botswana agate |
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| Amethyst geode | |
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| Mossy agate | |
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| Psuedomorphs | |
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| The agate cracked and had metallic minerals
filling in before the red agate were added in. |
You can see some Agate Creek Agates for Sale at the Online Agate & Thunderegg Shop