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New South Wales
Swan Brook sapphire ground
Gem locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: sapphire, zircon.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Sapphire-bearing alluvials on Swan Brook east of Inverell, worked commercially through the 1970s boom
Documented in Inverell district sapphire field accounts.
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