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Quilpie

Town And Field Hub in the Queensland Field Explorer. Stable geology/history is separated from current visitor guidance checked 2026-09-11; no live road/open status or permission is inferred.

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Evidence level

Documented Field/Trading Centre

No specimen provenance, mine status, field boundary or current access permission is inferred from this label.

Stable context

Quilpie is a major Queensland boulder-opal mining and trading centre in the western opal fields.

Stable context

GIA records the first opal discovery in the Quilpie area at Bull Creek in 1885, north of the present township.

Current official visitor layer · checked 2026-09-11

What the reviewed official sources support now.

The department profiles Quilpie as a western opal-field centre and mentions fossicking/tours regionally, but that does not grant access to a particular mine, claim or private property. Check the actual site operator/landholder, tenure permissions, licence rules and current road information.

Visitor guidance class

Regional profile; site permission still required

This describes the source-backed publication scope of this BOU route. It is not a live open/closed status.

Camping

Not asserted by this route

Camping rules are stated only where the reviewed official source supports them. A camping permit never replaces a fossicking licence.

Licence + permission

Current licence required; actual land/tenure permission still matters

Where land is not specified fossicking land, current Queensland guidance can require written landholder and mining-tenure permission. Historical mining evidence is never permission.

Road / travel status

Not republished by BOU

BOU does not state a live road, weather or closure condition. Use QLDTraffic and the locality/rules pages immediately before travel.

Queensland opal/gemstone profileBOU011-SRC-009 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2026-06-25Western opal fieldsBOU011-SRC-004 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2016-08-17Current fossicking licence / camping permitBOU011-SRC-001 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2026-08-13Where you can fossick / permission rulesBOU011-SRC-002 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2025-06-19Personal protection and safetyBOU011-SRC-003 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated 2024-07-08QLDTraffic current road informationBOU011-SRC-008 · checked 2026-09-11 · source updated live service

Before travel: re-check the current fossicking licence, land and mining-tenure permissions, locality-specific camping/access rules, personal safety guidance and QLDTraffic. Conditions and permissions can change after this BOU check date.

Atlas relationships

How this record connects.

Only documented regional or distance relationships are listed; the Atlas does not infer exact geographic boundaries.

  • The Toompine opal fields lie between Quilpie and Yowah.
  • The broader western field corridor links Quilpie with Winton to the north-west and Cunnamulla/Eulo-area fields to the south-east.

Relationship sources · BOU-SRC-006 · BOU-SRC-003

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Formation connection · BOU005

What this field contributes to the model.

GIA documented boulder opal at the centre of an ironstone concretion from Quilpie and reports broader concretion/seam relationships in the local field area. This is not generalized to all Queensland boulder opal.

Field-scoped evidence · BOU-SRC-007 · BOU-SRC-008

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Specimen bridge

This field has a published specimen relationship.

Only the listed source-documented specimen record(s) inherit this field link. The field page does not assign other specimens to this locality.

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