International exhibition Glasgow 1901
Official catalogue

blue on plan. Queensland. 187 QUEENSLAND MINERAL COURT. INDUSTRIAL HALL—SOUTH-EAST COURTS. SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL EXHIBITS. This Court has been erected by the Department of Mines, State of Queensland, Australia, and is intended to show bulk exhibits of the varied mineral products of this young State. It is situated in the south-east corner of the Industrial Hall, and runs parallel with Gray Street and Sandyford Street, occupying over 6000 feet of space, and having, as warranted by the Exhibition authorities, a frontage on all sides to four main passages. Visitors alighting from the electric ears proceeding by Sandyford Street will find this prettily designed and tastefully decorated Court most readily from the Gray Street entrance. From this point it is approached in a few feet from the turnstiles, and is immediately noticeable on the left by the large and handsome gold columns and arches that completely surround the Court. From the main entrance in Sandyford Street visitors will at once discover it by turning to the right and walking down the main avenue nearest to and parallel with Sandyford Street, where, in front of them, in large letters, may be seen the word “ Queensland. ” As may naturally be looked for in almost a purely mineral Court, the principal exhibits are specimens or samples in bulk of almost all the royal and base metals and minerals won from the land in the State of Queensland. These are shown in a variety of glass eases and stands, especially designed to demonstrate not only the richness and beauty of the samples themselves but by the order in which the matrix of all the metals are classified to be a valuable educational exhibit especially to the young of Glasgow. Ihe cases themselves, situated as they are in various parts of the Court, and placed with artistic taste on red carpet, and surrounded by palms indigenous to the State of Queensland, present a pretty sight; and when in addition visitors inspect the contents, they must be impressed not only with their beauty, richness, and value, bnt also with the great variety of minerals this particular State is capable of producing. Ihere arc gold specimens, alluvial and quartz, and samples of rich gold-bearing quartz, estimated to be worth at least £15,000 sterling. Then there are precious stones, consisting of opals, sapphires, zircons, topazes, and crystals, worth £2000, and at the end of the Court nearest the dome of the Industrial Hall will be found a lapidary at work on the precious stones, fitting them for the jewellery of commerce. On the opposite corner the working of Queensland Crystals is being carried on by an expert in that art. In other cases will be found the replicas of cakes of retorted gold and bars of melted and refined gold, the originals of which weighed almost 17,000 ounces, and were recently sold in London for about £60,000, after a long exhibition there. In the centre of the Court is a golden obelisk which contains 864 cubic feet, and represents the output of this one State of the new Commonwealth, of the value of over fifty millions sterling. On this obelisk are shown the principal gold-producing