Yogo is the rarest of all Sapphires. In the late 1880s, Yogo City was like a ghost town. The hundreds of people who had come to the town looking for gold had deserted it. Only a few people remained. Yogo City had been one of the least productive areas for gold mining in all of Montana. It was not until 1895 when Jake Hoover came to Yogo City looking for gold. Like many of the miners, he noticed the tiny blue pebbles that settled down to the bottom of the gravel bed along with the gold. But unlike others, he saved the pebbles. At the end of the season, he sent a box full of these little blue pebbles to New York for expert evaluation. The box was eventually examined by gemologist Dr. George F. Kunz who identified the little blue pebbles as rare sapphires.

Although Randy loves working at the shop and selling at area gem shows, he's never happier than when he is in the Montana mountains mining the beautiful yogo sapphires. This effort gives Montana Gem the unique ability to take these precious sapphires from the ground through to the finished piece of jewelry. Our larger stones stay right here in Montana to be faceted by Randy himself or by other faceters here in the state.

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