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Brazillian Tumble Mix - perfect to create beautiful polished rocks in your tumbler for jewelry or art projects. This 1 lb package will include a variety of stones and may contain any of the following: amethyst, citrine, crystal quartz, rose quartz, blue quartz, green quartz, white quartz, fuchsite, blue onyx, green onyx, red jasper, blue calcite, orange calcite, orchid calcite, white & green aragonite & banded agate.
$25.00 – $500.00
Gift Certificate good for any purchase with Montana Gems of Philipsburg. Good for online use or in store.
You will receive a printed Gift Certificate with your unique code. Or if you prefer, we can email you your gift certificate so that you can share it electronically.
We are happy to add a custom note, just leave it in the order notes.
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$32.00
Tunduru River Rainbow Gems is a super cool mix of multiple gemstones that come from Africa.
This 1 gallon bag of gem gravel will have you searching for garnets, sapphires, rubies, spinels, chrysoberyl and zircon. These are not huge gems but some will be big enough to cut a small finished gemstone. They can also be kept as a collection where you can admire the fantastic colors. We had purchased this gem mix about 10 years ago and have searched for it ever since. Thankfully, we were finally able to get more of this colorful, gemmy material to share with you.
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$49.00
Virgin, unwashed gravel from the Rock Creek sapphire deposit. This material is not from the Gem Mountain commercial mine but from the Potentate Mining Company. This sapphire gravel comes packaged in a 2 gallon sack. The material will contain a lot of clay as well as sticks, pinecones and debris making it very difficult to wash clean. Hopefully your added time and effort will be worth it. Fortunately, when you do get it clean, the Rock Creek sapphires are usually quite gemmy, making them easier to distinguish among the base material. A difficult material to work but tends to produce sapphires that respond well to heat-treating. Complete washing instructions with photo are included to assist you through the process.
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$52.00
A 2 pack of our Tunduru River Rainbow Gems.
This package will contain (2) 1 gallon bags of our Tunduru River rainbow gem gravel. You'll be searching for garnets, sapphires, rubies, spinels, chrysoberyl and zircon in a natural Montana sapphire gravel. These are not huge gems but some will be big enough to cut a small finished gemstone. They can also be kept as a collection where you can admire the fantastic colors. We had purchased this gem mix about 10 years ago and have searched for it ever since. Thankfully, we were finally able to get more of this colorful, gemmy material to share with you.
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$53.00 – $62.00
Double the fun when you mix and match our 1 gallon gem gravel bags. You'll be able to choose 2 bags for 2 different experiences of mining. Start with one of our Rock Creek Sapphire Treasure bags. Then you get to choose from 3 other 1 gallon gem gravels. A fun mining experience with a little discount on the combo!
Your options are: Gem Stew , Tunduru River Rainbow Bag , Gems to Jewelry Kit , our our Geode Variety Pack
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$58.00
Search for tourmaline in our California tourmaline ore. This tourmaline gravel paydirt comes from the mine in Pala, CA. Each bag contains a random scoop of paydirt that may contain lots of fine dirt, mica, ore chunks(rock) and hopefully gemstones. Tourmaline from this area may be pink, green, blue, black or bi-color in needle or pencil shapes as well as bits and pieces. You'll want to look over every piece of quartz for embedded tourmaline pieces. Keep a close eye for pinks and purples. The purples are usually a type of mica called lepidolite - nice for collecting but not worth much. Also be on the look out for quartz, apatite, morganite, clevelandite, calcite, feldspar, topaz, spessartine garnet, aquamarine, and kunzite. This is a rich area and produces many different gemstones.
Keep in mind, it's mining and always a gamble.
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$99.00
Check out this winning combination of Gems and Fossils!
You'll receive 2- 2 gallon bags. One will be our Gem Krazy, loaded with fun gems to find in a genuine sapphire gravel. The other will be our Fossil bag - more sapphire gravel loaded with various fossils.
Gem Krazy!™ - tons of fun for everyone! Our fossil bag will contain a nice variety of aquatic fossils.
May contain any of the following: amethyst, citrine, crystal quartz, rose quartz, blue quartz, green quartz, white quartz, fuchsite, blue onyx, green onyx, red jasper, blue calcite, orange calcite, orchid calcite, white aragonite, green aragonite, agate, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sharks teeth, natural fossils, petrified wood, gold flakes and of course the chance at finding a Montana sapphire.
All gravel bags come with mining instructions as well as identification cards to help you identify the gems and fossils in your material.
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$110.00
Montana sapphire gravel from the El Dorado Bar of the Missouri River. This bag contains 2 gallons of natural, unwashed, concentrated Montana sapphire gravel from a private claim on the El Dorado bar. The gravel may also contain rubies, garnets, hematite and/or gold. The sapphires found in this area generally range from 1 to 6 carats, but an occasional larger crystal is recovered. If you like rock-hounding, this bag is for you. Like all mining, it's like buying a lottery ticket!
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$135.00
Our Gravel Sampler Pack includes the following:
1 Rock Creek Treasure Bag
1- Tunduru River Sapphire gravel
1- Tourmaline Gravel
1 - Just a Little Krazy
We are going to offer this at a discounted price of $135 for all 4 bags shipped. If you were to buy these bags separate the cost would be $154.
Gem Krazy!™ - tons of fun for everyone! This crazy gravel is perfect for parties, get-togethers or for a weekend of fun! This product starts with a low grade (c grade) virgin El Dorado sapphire gravel. Then we add a couple hundred pounds of gems to the dump truck load of material for a guaranteed strike. Kid friendly but a blast for all ages. If you are just looking for sapphires, this is probably not the material for you.
May contain any of the following: amethyst, citrine, crystal quartz, rose quartz, blue quartz, green quartz, white quartz, fuchsite, blue onyx, green onyx, red jasper, blue calcite, orange calcite, orchid calcite, white aragonite, green aragonite, agate, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sharks teeth, natural fossils, petrified wood, gold flakes and of course the chance at finding a Montana sapphire.
These bags range from about 10-15lbs each. They will be shipped 2 bags per box - so a total of 2 boxes and may arrive a day or 2 apart.
All gravel orders come with mining instructions as well as identification cards to help you identify the gems and fossils in your material.
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$210.00
Rock Creek Sapphire Gravel 5 pack. Get 5 bags of the Rock Creek sapphire gravel from the Sapphire Mountains near Philipsburg, Montana. Each bag contains about 2 gallons of natural, unwashed, sapphire concentrate. This Montana sapphire gravel comes from the Potentate Mining Company.
This mountain material will contain a lot of clay. You'll also find small sticks, pine cones and debris making it very difficult to wash clean. Hopefully your added time and effort will be worth it. Fortunately, when you do get it clean, the Rock Creek sapphires are usually quite gemmy. This clarity helps make them easier to distinguish among the base material. A difficult material to work but tends to produce sapphires that respond well to heat-treating.
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