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  • The sapphire is found in all the states, principally in the neighbourhood of Beechworth, Victoria.
  • Sapphire occurs also in Tasmania.
  • Other precious stones, including the sapphire, emerald, oriental emerald, ruby, opal, amethyst, garnet, chrysolite, topaz, cairngorm, onyx, zircon, etc., have been found in the gold and tin bearing drifts and river gravels in numerous localities throughout the states.
  • The rolled crystals of sapphire occur, with garnet and other minerals, in glacial deposits, and have probably been derived from dykes of igneous rocks, like andesite and lamprophyre.
  • SAPPHIRE, 1 a blue transparent variety of corundum, or native alumina, much valued as a gem-stone.
 
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