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Sapphire Gemfields
The Sapphire Gemfields is Australia's largest sapphire fossicking area, located west of Emerald in the Central Highlands, Queensland. Centred on the townships of Anakie, Sapphire, Rubyvale and Willows along the Anakie Sapphire Road, it covers about 900 square kilometres. Notable as one of the world's major sapphire deposits, it has attracted fossickers and miners since the 1870s and offers public fossicking reserves and commercial fossicking parks.