Australia, Queensland
Mount Hay QLD
Thunderegg fee dig
Agate beach or gravel Documented siteLicence or permit
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Geodes
Agates and jasperPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: W.carter (CC BY-SA 4.0), Teerui (Public domain).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: 120-million-year-old rhyolite flows west of Rockhampton packed with agate-cored thundereggs, worked as a dig-your-own tourist park since the 1970s
Long-running fee-dig operation (Mt Hay Gemstone Tourist Park) on a well documented thunderegg deposit; not re-verified on the ground this year
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Sun exposureHard rocky digging, bring water
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.