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Contact UsBlue Hollow Mine
PO Box 250
Sapphire Qld 4702
Australia
Phone O/S: +617 4985 4515
Ph. In Aust.: 07 4985 4515
 Click on the links below
for more information.
Info on services provided
Jewellery Shop
Mining sapphires and zircons
Mining, etc Queensland Gemfields
School Project Info & Links
Maps - Sapphire, Rubyvale
Other local businesses
Accommodation - Sapphire/Rubyvale
Every miner's dream
Background Information
Stones tourists have found
Tourists out fossicking
Faceting Sapphires & Zircons
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Blue Hollow Mine
Peter and Debbie Chalmers welcome you to the sapphire fields of CentralQueensland, Australia. Our mine is located near Sapphire, on the easternside of the "Big Bessie" fossicking area. Using the links (to the left) youwill be able to find out everything you need to know about fossicking forsapphires and zircons at the Gemfields, see some of the truly Australian gemstones mined and faceted at Blue Hollow Mine that we have for sale in our Jewellery Shop, learn about sapphires, our local events and history, wildlife in the area and much more. If you have a particular area of interest you would like to know about, use our on-site search facility.
Sapphire is approx. 950km, by road, from Brisbane. (Capital city of Queensland, Australia)
To visit the Gemfields, follow the highway up the east coast from Brisbane to Rockhampton, then the Capricorn Highway west from Rockhampton to the Anakie intersection (42km west of Emerald). Sapphire is 10km to the north.
To make this site as informative and interesting as possible, if you have any suggestions about what you would like to see on this site, please send us your comments. We love meeting interesting people from all overthe world, so if you're out our way don't forget to drop in for a chat, or watch a breath-taking sunset over Blue Hollow Mine.  
See photos of the January 2008 flood.
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