Gem Mountain Philipsburg

Talk about addictive. Digging through dirt @ our age is just good clean fun. We ordered some of ya'lls buckets of dirt and we are on a steep learning curve before our actual arrival in the Big Sky. Sitting on the Mexican Border sifting thru all this rock is nothing short of just a blast! Still have a few lbs to go through but I'm pretty sure we will order more before we get there. I guess it's kinda like gambling @ a casino without the second hand smoke! Just the luck of the draw.
Plotted. Oumuamua. Beep.

My husband and I were there in 2015 while on our honeymoon. We live in the NE corner of Indiana and spent 3 weeks traveling, stopping along the way at historical sites as we headed towards Montana; the sapphire mines were the goal of our trip. We had the most AMAZING time looking for sapphires in a pile of gravel. The gift shop was SPECTACULAR! And everyone there was so nice and friendly. We will definitely return one day. Our honeymoon was a trip of a lifetime! Your sapphire mine was definitely
one of the highlights of our trip.

We found many many beautiful stones! Even a few that we can make into jewelry. Such a wonderful family owned business!

Had a great time finding my first sapphires here a couple of weeks ago! Staff here are very knowledgeable and professional in their business.

Love the staff! Love mining for sapphires! Both locations have a lot of fun and neat items. The Downtown location is beautiful. Always a great trip filled with fun adventures!

Great staff and a lot of fun! Definitely worth the trip. Of course there are no guarantees of getting a huge stone. But my wife and I have been going there for five years and have a great time each visit. It’s a great time for out of town guests too.

This review is complicated. It is 5 stars for when you go out to their affiliated site and dig for your own sapphires at the site. It's 3 for the sapphires at the store. The workers are very nice but the stone evaluator laughed at my stones on one occasion. It didn't make me feel great. I've bought gravel here since but haven't had it cut with them, I go to another place in town for cutting (there are only 2.) I do like that they have year round facilities. See - it's complicated.

Order sapphire gravel bucket online. Delivery was expedient and product was as advertised. Merchant was a pleasure to deal with. We had a lot of fun sorting for sapphires. Would give 10 stars if I could.

A couple of months later still dealing with Gem Mountain have had no problems whatsoever. Now up to 20 stars

Don't waste your time in the store, go to the mine for friendly, helpful staff. Have been in the store a few times over the last three years. Our most recent visit, the retail staff was awful. We won't bother stopping here again.

Visited this store very much by accident and very happy about that. Rock and Gem stores are by far my favourite and Gem Mountain did not disappoint. Prices were about par, but they have a great selection of unique items.

I took my family here while we were on vacation in Montana. I found the staff quite friendly and willing to help. Although most of the sapphires we found were around 1/2 to 3/4 carat weight, I have seen friends come away with many 2 to 4 carat stones out of a couple buckets of gravel. It's mining/prospecting, in that hobby there is never a guarantee for amount or size, but my family walked away with over 100 ctw worth of corundum (sapphires).

Really nice Experience, I got many nice sapphires from it and will make a nice jewelry out of it. I really like the idea for ideas for jewelry. Definitely worth having cut

This was our most exciting experience we’ve ever endured searching for precious stones we will be back thank you so much for helping us enjoy our moments

Love this place! Visit often. Always find lots of great stuff.gem crazy bags and fossil bags are the best for family's with kids. Always winners!

I have been here a few times. Both trips I had a wonderful time. Twice I have had sapphires faceted for me. However, this past order that I placed and just recently received was quite disappointing. For money per stone that a customer pays, you would expect to get what you wanted. That was not the case with the largest stone in my order. I was told that the stone did have a flaw in it, but the flaw was on the outside edge which could easily be cut away when faceting the stone. I had insisted that all stones in my order were "rounds", just like the last order that I had placed. The stone which was originally a 3.17 ct came back and Oval cut weighing in at. 90ct. The stone also had a huge crack which looked like air bubbles in the stone, this greatly changes the reflection the stone has. I would not use this stone for any jewelry pieces. I've dealt with customer service for this issue. After multiple back and forth emails they gave me two options, none of which seemed like winners. I am now stuck with a stone that I wouldn't even gift away. Go elsewhere for your sapphire hunting.

Great place for family fun with a chance of scoring big. Everyone did well there locating several cuttable stones each. A perfect day! The staff are awesome and go out of their way to help you.

Had a lot of fun. The staff was very friendly and helpful. Spent almost two hours there on one bag. Once you knew what you were looking for it became easier. It's almost addicting. I can see how one can stay there an entire day and get more bags. It's exciting and fun. The staff also goes through the stuff again to make sure you didn't miss anything. Why don't you do the gym mine at the mountain but they're closed three days out of the week FYI but you can still have lots of fun in town. It's a cute and fun town where everyone's friendly. Plan to spend a whole day in Phillipsburg to check everything out.

Had so much fun with my family finding sapphires here. Definitely on my list to go back some day.

Lots of fun and the staff are super nice. A 3.16 ct blue sapphire was the first, nicest and only blue one we found of many other clear and greenish ones we found. We did one 2gal bucket of material for 30.00 and left the big blue for heat treatment and cutting. It will take a few months but can't wait to see it finished.

Go to the mine to hunt for saphires, you won't be dissapointed! We found many gem quality stones. The people at both the mine and storefrint locations are super nice and helpful.