The Montana Blue Jewel Mine

The best place to dig sapphires in North America bar none highly recommend them the owner is awesome

Awesome place. Had a great day. Good fun.

The owner.... daughter.....and son in law are the best we found some nice sapphires....if you Google map it you will be led to the first mine on 4Cees road don't stop just keep going a couple more property lines to the end of the road you will see their sign

This place is loads of fun. Bruce and Eric were helpful and accommodating. I don't know if this place is for everyone -- if you like using a pair of tweezers to pick through some clean, nicely sorted gravel for teeny-tiny sapphires, you're probably better off going to Philipsburg. If, on the other hand, you're willing to do some hard labor to pull out some bigger rocks that might actually be good cutters, this is the place for you.nnYou're outside shoveling gravel. It might be hot, it might rain, and you'll definitely get a little wet and dirty, but this place is hands-down awesome. You can watch Bruce use a bulldozer to move dredge tailings through a grizzly, and then right over to the digging area. This stuff isn't pre-sorted.nnAnd you can see his industrial mining set-up where he processes tonnes of the same material per day. Really cool.nnThank you!

Eric gave us an excellent history of the area and was very knowledgeable about the different sapphire compositions. Bruce also stopped by during the day. Both were extremely helpful and friendly. They both helped us find sapphires, to include a 10ct yellow sapphire, and made our dig so much fun. Definitely going back next year.