Mineral Store australia Queensland’S largest range of fine minerals and crystals

Mineral Store Australia was founded by Tony and Jude Forsyth in 2012. Tony has been an avid mineral collector for over 50 years and Mineral Store Australia was established to allow them to bring a large selection of minerals and finely crystallised specimens, collected over countless years, to the market.

In June 2021 Tony and Jude retired and sold the business to David and Janelle Bissett. David is another long-time collector and began dealing at shows in 2009. David and Janelle are local to Tony and Jude in Brisbane and are well known for their current business – Australian Rocks and Minerals. David was the purchaser of the Norman Donpon Estate Collection in 2018 and has an extensive knowledge of lapidary work as well as mineral collecting.

David and Janelle have followed on from Tony’s passion for minerals and collecting which means that you will always receive sound advice and quality specimens at fair prices. Please feel free to contact us if you have a special mineral requirement, a collection to be appraised or a special specimen for a present. We offer vouchers as presents for a special occasion.

can’t get to a show?

We operate a small showroom at Birkdale on Brisbane’s Bayside where we have a display of some of our stock as well as storage of our extensive inventory. 

If you can’t get to one of the many shows we do you are welcome to make an appointment to visit us .

Specimen Valuations

Tony Forsyth is approved by the Federal Government to value Mineral specimens, gold specimens, gem crystals and meteorites
“Approved to value for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program”
If you would like a valuation please contact us and we will pass your details on to Tony.

Iconic specimens!

In 2020 we purchased a fabulous old specimen to repatriate to Australia! Nickname “Brutus” by the buyer, it is a 43kg jackstraw specimen of cerussite from Broken Hill, NSW, Australia.

Mineral Store Australia only takes a small percentage of our stock to shows. Please let us know if you are after something in particular – with thousands of specimens in stock you never know what we might have!

Online Shopping

We are on our annual buying trip to the tucson Gemshows in Arizona.

Whilst we are away we are not able to take orders. To facilitate this we have removed access to our online stock.

We will be back at the end of February and will load lots of new stock items.

And please remember – if there is something you are chasing let us know – we have huge stocks and are also happy to purchase items to order.

International Mineral Shows

TUCSON GEMSHOWS 2025

We spent three weeks in Tucson in early 2025 hand selecting a great range of fine mineral and crystal specimens to bring fresh stock to our 2025 shows.

In addition to highlights such as Bolivian Sulphur specimens we were able to source some other great pieces such as:-

*Large Megalodon Teeth from the Eastern United States

* high quality faceting rough from Brazil

* UV reactive minerals from New Jersey.

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TUCSON 2026

Janelle and David are travelling to the Tucson Gemshows in January/February and look forward to sharing their purchases at Australian shows throughout 2026

Australian Mineral sPECIMENS

We have lots of Australian sPecimens in stock – please send us an email of anything you would like to see

Tasmanian Crocoite

In October 2017 we obtained a large quantity of the rare mineral, crocoite, mined in the early 1990s at the famous Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania by the late Frank Mihajilowitz. This 33cm specimen was our latest delivery!