It's the deep blue ones

Quite a few years ago my friend, Will Chaussee, asked me to take some time during my trip to Thailand to see if there might be any Thai interest in purchasing sapphires from his mine in Montana.

Will had a cedar lumber company in Bothell and sold out his interest in it to spend full time mining sapphires.

The mine was halfway between Hamilton and Philipsburg, Montana on mountain road 38.

We were i...