Fossil rich areas in Qld

I just checked the map on the Queensland Tourism site and 19 Marian St Mt Isa is NOT the location of the fossil deposits as they have indicated :-)

Check this website or contact these people for more information.

This is one of the places I would love to go to, I am not sure if you can collect fossils there as many of the species are still being discovered and have not been named.

contact@riversleigh.com


http://www.riversleigh.com/

Riversleigh covers an area of approximately 80 square kilometres and is located 250 km north-west of Mt Isa

Oops - ROFLMAO!

I emailed tourism Queensland and got this reply :-)

( the information center is at 19 Marian St Mt Isa :)


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Hi Doug,

Thanks for your email.

Our records show the Fossil Fields are located at 19 Marian St Mt Isa which is
correctly indicated on the map.

Please let us know if you think the record requires any updating.

Thanks,
The Team at TQ
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I have sent them an update !

Apparently, or so I was told last year by the Dinosaur people at Winton, You can keep anything you find. The government wants nothing to do with the fossils. No money to make. The only legal requirement is that you have permission off who ever owns the land. It would be up to the individual to hand over there find if it was a new find, but not a legal requirement.

Currently in the area, they have enough finds to dig up, to keep them digging for approximately 60years. They can only dig for about one month or so a year.

Property owners have been finding these fossils since the area was settled, but were scared to declare their finds incase the government took their land. If they so wish, they can donate their finds now to a musuem, and they can get a tax rebate in return.

Around Winton you can volunteer to help with the major dig each year. Will cost you around 2grand from memory.

The information centre in Mt Isa is certainly worth a visit especially if you have been out to the Riversleigh site. The Info centre has a lot of displays showing the animals that are fossilised, what the country where they lived was like, how they came to be fossilised etc. You also get to see (or did when we were there a few years ago) how the fossils are extracted from the surrounding rock - very interesting.

I don't have the address so maybe its at Marian St.

Cheers,

Val

Yep the Mt Isa district tourist information including the information center for riversligh is at 19 Marian st Mt Isa.

NOT the fossil field :-)

Nambour will have a good one soon...a Fossil of Ruddasourintheass you wont have to wait long ..the Mining Giants will dig him up and put him back there...

pity buts that the way it goes when you don't cover your ass..
steve

Mills5 , well it wont be Mr. backflip magnate Palmer that buries him , " oh yes I'm cancelling 2 projects that would have employed 5000 " and now " the projects will go ahead no matter what tax we pay" one large lump of money / resources [that he does not own] grabing lard.