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

Mineral Store Australia is a Brisbane based seller of fine minerals and crystals founded in 2012 and now owned by David Bissett. 

In June 2021 original owners Tony and Jude Forsyth retired and sold the business to David.

David is long-time collector and began dealing at shows in 2009. He and his wife Janelle were well known for their 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.

With a passion for minerals and collecting it 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. 

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 have a small selection of our specimens on sale in our online shop – please have a browse to see if there is anything you would like to add to your collection.

And 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 2026

We spent a couple of weeks in Tucson in early 2026 hand selecting a great range of fine mineral and crystal specimens to bring fresh stock to our 2026 shows.

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

*Large Megalodon Teeth from the Eastern United States

* high quality faceting rough from Brazil

* some great mineral specimens including several from long-closed USA mines

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OLD COLLECTIONS

We are aways keen to acquire additional stock – if you are selling your mineral or lapidary collection including old machinery please get in touch with us. 

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 just one of many!