With names like Emerald, Sapphire, and Rubyvale it might be insurance that gems are to be found. Interestingly Emerald isn't a gem town at all. The name comes from the river that runs through the town. Emerald is a lucrative booming,mining town and the residence are transient and tradies. The info center's staff gave us the low down on the employee desperation and attempted to recruit us into the towns employment deficit. With pleas that we didn't need any experience and the pay was good, we disappointingly informed them we weren't in the market for a job. Nice people in Emerald and a good place if you want to work (but stinking hot).
Sapphire and Rubyvale on the other hand, claim the largest Sapphire gem fields in the world providing 60% of the worlds natural Sapphire. They are blue, green, black, black star, blue star, yellow and orange (being the most rare). In the last 20 years two super rocks were found...the latest being by a 10yr old school kid valuing $2 million. Town residence will tell you the father squandered the money away on the bottle.
We stayed in Rubyvale. Those who live here are of two types...those looking for the elusive super rock..or those cutting, setting and selling them for those who look for them. Other then the gems...there is NOTHING HERE but the searing heat.
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