Fascinating Facets & The Crystal Caves
Crystal in Tablelands

Each of the thousands of flawless crystals was formed inner the geode exactly as you see them now, 130 million years ago. Beautifully displayed and reasonably priced, you will find the alike huge selection of jewellery, mineral specimens and carvings using only natural gemstones from around the world. The specimens collected in this museum arrive from all around the world, making it a unique collection. Enthralling Facets is worth a visit in its own right. But the only way to really appreciate The Crystal Caves is to see it for yourself. Rene has traveled the world for more than 30 years collecting accurate crystals, fossils and mineral specimens for his underground museum in Atherton. Rene then traveled the world collecting spectacular crystals to display. The 61 year used says, There is so much more I want to do. In the Crystal Caves we try to make people find things for themselves. Owner of Intriguing Facets Rene Boissevain said his plans to increase the Crystal Caves will make the display of rocks and minerals one of the largest and maximum intriguing to be found in the north. Rene said the cave was created to stir people’s interest in visiting Intriguing Facets and the Crystal Caves. Since opening his Crystal Cave a scanty months ago, Rene has proudly shown the pick of his 23 years of mineral collecting to intriguing tourists and locals. Rene says they are probably the biggest perfect specimen ever found. Most of them probably think I’m crazy. About 12 years ago Rene decided to sell his crystal rock business in Holland and originate a shop in Atherton Called Enthralling Facets. Rene Boissevain is pictured with one of the unusual pieces which makes up his crystal mineral collection, described as one of the superior in Australia. It has taken Rene Boissevain of Fascinating Facets in Atherton three and a half months and 75,00 to create the underground cavern in the basement of his shop where he now houses his crystal collection described as one of the superior in Australia. Enthralling Facets is situated in Main street, Atherton, and in addition to the crystal display carries a expansive range of gems, gold, healing stones and quartz crystal, as healthy as gift items made form these materials. Intriguing Facets is not strictly a gemstone shop, or a jewellery shop, nor is it a rock collector’s shop or gift shop, but all of these as mufti faceted as the faces of a instinctive crystallized mineral and as dazzling as the facets cut into a stone that will make it into an exclusive gem. There are automatic crystals, birth stones, healing stones, authentic quartz crystal balls, exclusive imported fish fossils, lovely malachite and collectors mineral specimens. More and more people are going for the authentic thing, the instinctive beauty of genuine gemstones, says Rene Boissevain, of Intriguing Facets. Rene Boissevain, her father, has been in the mineral business for 20 year starting in Australia with three years in Walkamin, then to Holland where he and his wife Nell eke, owned and operated a very thriving mineral museum. We decided to originate the shop in Atherton so that people could see why we found gemstones so interesting, said Lefje. I think people are more interested in the minerals, she said. It was then that he decided to open up his gemstone business in Atherton.