Australia.

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Sapphire .: QLD.

Rachel busy looking for Sapphires  and finding them..

Termite mounds ..Central Queensalnd.

Road distance sign  northern New South Wales.

This is a souvenir card from my Road trip to Far Northern Queensland..F.N.Q....and this was from my stop in Sapphire a small town with lots to offer. We decided to stop here as it is one of the gemstone towns located in this part of Queensland..the others being Rubyvale and Emerald..After obtaining our mining licence we set about looking for sapphires and other precious stones..and after a quite of few hours we had found between us 16 sapphires and one other., a zircon...These were taken to be assayed and it was found that their were found amongst "our finds" , four sapphires of very good condition that could be cut and polished and one Zircon...these then after the process, were mounted into a nice ring and it was given to my eldest daughter for her 21 st birthday....and what a nice gift.. as she can keep that forever and give it to her children..We had a great time here in the Gem fields of central north Queensland and our stop here was a highlight on this long 9.000 kilometer road trip through western and eastern New South Wales and far north Queensland.