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Our agates are of high quality for the professional collector

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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