Visit Peter and Debbie Chalmers at the Blue Hollow Mine for the full sapphire fossicking experience. Fossick at the park through original dirt from their own underground mine to learn how to identify and find sapphires using their equipment, or you can hire some gear and they'll set you up in the adjoining 'Big Bessie' fossicking area to find sapphires 'in the wild'. See video and photographs of the underground, browse through the shop where you can buy sapphires mined, faceted and set at Blue Hollow, have your own sapphires faceted and set into jewellery, view the 'Blue Horizon' - one of the largest gem-quality sapphires found on the fields, and buy or hire your fossicking equipment.
CONTACT DETAILS
Phone:
07 4985 4515
Email: info@bluehollowmine.com.au
Web:
www.bluehollowmine.com.au
ENTRY INFORMATION
Open Times:
Open 0800 to 1700 Sunday to Friday. Closed Saturdays, Christmas Day, Good Friday and Anzac Day.
Free Entry:
Yes.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Children: Children are welcome.
How to get There
From Rockhampton, which is on the Central Queensland Coast, travel 350 kilometres west on the Capricorn Highway to Emerald, then another 45 kilometres west to the Anakie Crossroads Intersection. Turn north for 10 kilometres to Sapphire, then west on Rifle Range Road for approximately two and a half kilometres to Blue Hollow Mine. There is all sealed road, except for the last 500 metres of unsealed, formed, dirt road. There are printable maps available online at the operator's website.
