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!

HOME SHOW

We usually have a home show event at Birkdale on Brisbane’s Bayside during the year to give people an opportunity to see some of the stock we don’t take to shows. In addition to our excellent mineral and crystal specimens we also have great quality lapidary rough and decorator specimens including some spectacular petrified wood suitable for landscaping projects.

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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Tony Forsyth calendars

The annual Mineral Store Australia calendar has been a keenly awaited release each year for the past 10 years – adorning walls well beyond the calendar year.

 Please email us if you would like to be put on the contact list for when the calendar is available 

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!