A permit is required from the Visitor Information Centre and it costs from $5 per person a day but children under 12 are free.

The Glen Innes Highlands Region is responsible for a large portion of Australia’s total sapphire production and has various creeks and rivers where finding your own sapphire is highly possible.

There’s also the interior of a hessian-lined miner’s hut, a collection of over 400 photographs of the old mines, miners, and the Emmaville community, and a beautiful 1,500 bottle collection.Located at the Visitor Information Centre are two sapphire, gem and lapidary businesses that are well worth a visit. Some fossicking sites need a day’s advance notice and to be contacted – see brochure for further information.If you're fossicking in the area of Emmaville or TOrrington it's a good idea to stop into the Emmaville Mining Museum for the local down-low on fossicking in the area. Glen Innes NSW 2370 02 6730 2400 Fossicking around Glen Innes Fossicker Caravan Park - Fossicking Park in the heart of Glen Innes town 750m south of the Visitor Centre on the New England Highway. Minerama is perfect for all gem and jewellery lovers, rockhounds and outdoor adventurers. It’s a small wonder that more and more people are flocking to Glen Innes Highlands to fossick.We're part of the most prolific sapphire region in New South Wales which has the world’s richest mineral diversity belt.
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Visit the Emmaville Mining Museum in the village of Emmaville or explore the designated fossicking areas within the Torrington State recreation Area. At the Yarrow Creek Bridge, less than 25km south east of Glen Innes, at Pinkett, you can fossick for topaz, garnet, zircon and sapphires.
About 150km west of Sydney, this small town nestled in the shadow of the Blue Mountains has five unique fossicking sites designated for the public. Visitors can search for sapphires, zircon, gold and diamond. The following workshops are on offer. Held every year on the 2nd weekend in March, Minerama is perfect for all … Guided lessons are provided at Bullock Mountain Homestead, 15km from Glen Innes, on the Reddestone Creek.

Our 'Pop-Up' conference packages are curated experiences in creative tourism designed to enhance engagement and leave your delegates, teams or clients with a feeling of more than just your regular talkfests. Website designed by Whatever your fossicking experience there is to be plenty to be gained by visiting the Glen Innes Highlands this summer.

Wellingrove Fossicking Reserve, Glen Innes A peaceful and secluded spot for a fossick, Wellingrove is 19km north west of Glen Innes where you can hope to find sapphires and zircons. Passing through or staying in Glen Innes, come & try your luck to find Sapphires or Gemstones.

If you are lucky you may just find a sapphire or gemstone. Never been fossicking before?



Along with topaz and sapphires there is an abundance of quartz and crystals. There are over 100+ stalls trading in gemstones, fine jewellery, facet rough, lapidary tools & supplies, crystals, beads, fossils, mineral specimens, arts, crafts and more. Out back is Foley’s General Store Museum, a replica blacksmith’s shop, an old wood-fired bakery, and a machinery shed filled with old mining equipment. Passing through or staying in Glen Innes? And there are other reasons: fossicking is easy, cheap, no licence is needed in NSW and it’s a fun activity for the whole family – with the prospect of glittering rewards. It’s internationally famous for the deep rich, royal blue sapphires. 35km east of Glen Innes on the Gwydir highway is Timbarra River Bridge and 24km north-west at the Wellingrove Creek Bridge you can fossick for sapphires and zircon. 2020 © All Rights Reserved. The Glen Innes Highlands Visitors Information Centre has released a new brochure on the best spots around Glen Innes for fossickingThe Glen Innes Highlands ‘Fossicking around Glen Innes’ brochure is full to the brim with ideas, details and even a treasure map to the best gem hunting spots in the district.If you have ever wanted to find your very own famed blue sapphires or other precious gems then be sure to call into the Glen Innes Highlands Visitor Information Centre on the New England Highway and grab the Fossicking brochure and any tools you may require. Great fun Oberon, New South Wales.


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