thepomandozzy

Hi all,

Probably a strange question this but has anyone ever managed to ship rocks into Australia. By rocks i mean large crystal specimens and geodes. I have been collecting them for 20 years now and dont want to sell them because were migrating (besides all the opal came from oz in the first place ).

They are all clean as they have been taken from a display cabinet problem is some are just too fragile to wash.

any ideas?

mbike

Hi,

Have a good look on the AQIS Icon database here. Most things that have some quarantine restriction are there.

http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon32/asp/homecontent.asp

Mark

jensteve

Well my sons arrived in one piece but thereagain they where in with his toys and no one bothered to check and they where not listed. So many get bought in wholesale into Aus I can't see why you can't bring them over yourself.
Jen

annqldau

We brought a few small rocks and chrystals and a large fossil with us without hassle. Snake skin different story that held up the whole container for a week.

Think you can bring a lot more than they make out and get away with it... were told by Pickfords to ditch loads then other people brought same stuff in, if you have a dishwasher but everything you can through that a few times and should be clean enough.

julie hilton

What about lava rock? We have loads on our water fall. We brought them from Iceland.

They would look lovely around our pool on OZ.

busterboy

You are all demented for sure!

mbike

I am just in the process of filling out the Customs/AQIS Unaccompanied Personal Effects Statement (B534) and noticed in Section 8 there is a box asking about "Soil or Earth or goods containing soil, earth, rock or mineral samples" Guess you need to declare them and let AQIS decide their fate.

Mark