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Montana’s Yogo Sapphire mine, the only one of its kind in the world
September 6, 2019 /
Located about 50 miles west of Lewistown lies the Yogo Sapphire Gulch where at least a billion dollars worth of Yogo sapphires is hidden in the rocks.
At this gulch, people will find dedicated miners like Gorge Lind and his girlfriend Beth Brown digging in the dirt in hopes of discovering gems with a beautiful bluish-purple color.
“My grandpa back in 1980 bought a place up here and I started coming here when I was a kid,” said Lind. I’d spend the summers here and fell in love. I was 13 and I found a stone that was 3 carats, it cut out over a carat, and I used that money to buy my first car when I was 16.”
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