History of the Sapphire Industry
1900 The Mining Wardens report noted sapphire production at 150lb valued at £900. population 34 miners and 15 women and children. 1902 B Dunstan's Geologicial Report Published in the Queensland Mining Journal. He wrote "Let it be known that the field is a large one, that the extent of the sapphire wash is second to none in the world, and that ...