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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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