A Must Stay Experience on your travels through Sapphire Gemfields, Central Queensland and the Outback. An Oasis for Adult guests wanting a peaceful and relaxed stay with superb comfort and great features. Michael & Jane Taylor, the business owners and hosts, also have a Sapphire and Jewellery Business: Taylors Fine Sapphires.
You can browse in their shop for Australian Sapphires and Quality Jewellery or have your special Sapphire appraised for faceting. Michael and Jane are passionate about Australian Sapphires, the Sapphire Gemfields and with over 34yrs experience in Rubyvale, are more than happy to help you plan your ideal Gemfields visit.
You can browse in their shop for Australian Sapphires and Quality Jewellery or have your special Sapphire appraised for faceting. Michael and Jane are passionate about Australian Sapphires, the Sapphire Gemfields and with over 34yrs experience in Rubyvale, are more than happy to help you plan your ideal Gemfields visit.
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SAPPHIRES were first found in the area in the late 1870's and by 1890 commercial mining had begun. Many booms and lows have been part & parcel in the life as a Gem prospector. Australian Sapphires dominated the world's supply of Sapphire in the 1970's & 80's. The harsh and hard digging conditions belay the fact that many world famous sapphires have been found, with many more to come.
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The 'Gems by Day, Jewels by Night' Observatory is a fascinating tour into the wonders of the night sky above the Sapphire Gemfields. While the sapphires take up your day activities, the outback sky provides diamond nights. The powerful 14 Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope is perfect for seeing the magnificent clusters and colours of stars throughout the constellations.
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My girlfriend and I were travelling Australia for a year. On our way to Carnarvon Gorge we stopped in the tourist info centre in Emerald and found a flyer promoting the gem fields. We thought we'd spend a night but wound up spending 4! We rented equipent and got a license to try our hand at fossicking, checked out the local market and bought some watercolour artwork, but mainly, we browsed through many many sapphire and gem shops!
Taylors Fine Sapphires
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Michael is an awarding winning Gemmologist and Jane is a Gem Cutter and they both love living and working in Rubyvale. We came to the Sapphire Gemfields on our honeymoon in 1986 it was an exciting time as the area was having a successful mining period - Gem Fever Struck! So we immediately started mining and this success led to the opening of our shop 'Taylors Fine Sapphires' in Rubyvale.
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