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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