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All Agates are handpicked by Renè Boissevain and
his wife Nelleke in the rugged outback of North Queensland
in 1969. Living in tents and using only a shovel and a pick
axe and being pestered by millions of flies they soon had
a nice stockpile of Agate Creek Agates. These agates being
flown to the Netherlands to be sold in Renè's Museum
'De Oude Aarde' -which means 'the old earth'.
Limited amounts made it back to Australia and have been
left alone for many years due to Renè's and Nelleke's
committment to their new business venture - The
Crystal Caves and Fascinating Facets - an underground
adventure museum with minerals and fossils to touch and
the shop above it that sells gemstones, jewlery and many
novelity gift ideas.
Now finally Renè has time to cut the agates in half
and reveal the tremendous variety of patterns and diversity
of colors that makes the Agate Creek Agates the most
sought after amongst collectors worldwide.
Each Agate is cut in half with a diamond saw and -if good
enough to process further- then polished. A paste of 80
grit silicon carbide is smeared on and the agate half is
than pushed down by hand onto the plate moving it back and
forward...The process is followed up using the same method
with grit nr 220, than 600 and the final polish with tin
oxide which results in a smooth and shiny surface.
You can be sure that you receive an unique piece of earth
made art - some 40 million years in the making
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