MTMontana field entry
Gem Mountain — Philipsburg
Philipsburg, MT
A downtown Philipsburg sapphire store where visitors can wash mine gravel for their own Montana stones, then move from loose gems and custom jewelry into fossils, quartz, giant amethyst pieces, teak furniture, wood carvings, clothing and framed butterflies.
Gem Mountain combines hands-on sapphire hunting and serious gemstone retail with an unexpectedly broad showroom of fossils, furniture, carvings and natural-history décor.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Sapphire store, jewelry shop, gemstone dealer, hands-on mining experience, fossil and mineral shop, furniture showroom, wood-carving store, home-décor retailer and unusual natural-history gift shop.
The downtown shop combines gemstone retail and guided gravel washing with furniture, fossils, mineral specimens, carvings, clothing and natural-history décor under one roof.
Gem Mountain's downtown Philipsburg store is much more than the retail counter for a sapphire mine. Visitors can buy and wash Gem Mountain sapphire gravel on site, have discovered stones evaluated and potentially transformed into finished jewelry, and shop loose sapphires and finished pieces. Around that operation is a showroom of fossils, quartz, amethyst cathedrals, teak furniture, wood carvings, clothing and framed butterflies. Gem Mountain also operates a separate seasonal mine outside town; that property remains geographically and editorially distinct from this downtown OddStops record.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Montana sapphires
- Sapphire gravel
- Hands-on gravel washing
- Loose faceted stones
- Sapphire jewelry
- Custom jewelry
- Fossils
- Quartz
- Amethyst cathedrals
- Teak furniture
- Wood carvings
- Framed butterflies
- Unusual home décor