The Best Time of Year to Visit the Sapphire Gemfields Timing your Gemfields visit correctly can be the difference between a comfortable, productive fossicking experience and an uncomfortable day of

What Makes Emerald Different from Other Mining Towns Travel through the Bowen Basin and you will pass through several towns that exist primarily because of coal mining — Blackwater, Moranbah,

Why Emerald Is the Best Base for Exploring the Central Highlands When planning a trip to the Central Highlands, the question of where to base yourself determines everything else —

Parti-Coloured Sapphires: The Gemfields’ Secret When most people imagine sapphires, they picture a uniform deep blue — the kind of colour that dominates the world’s most famous sapphire deposits and

A Complete Guide to Fishing at Fairbairn Dam Fairbairn Dam has quietly built a reputation among inland anglers as one of Central Queensland’s best freshwater fishing destinations. The dam, which

Five Mistakes First-Time Visitors Make in Emerald (and How to Avoid Them) Emerald is a straightforward town, but it has its own rhythms and realities that are not immediately obvious

The FIFO Worker’s Guide to Making Emerald Feel Like Home You have driven eight hours from Brisbane, or flown in on the afternoon QantasLink, or transferred from the mine bus

What Nobody Tells You About Fossicking for Sapphires at Rubyvale Most guides to the Sapphire Gemfields tell you the same things: get a licence, buy a sieve, wash some dirt,