Miners Heritage Walk In Mine Tour

My husband and I went for a mine tour on Saturday. Was very interesting learning all about how they did it. Danielle our tour guide was wonderful. Very knowledgeable. And answered our questions with ease. Would definitely recommend doing this tour when in Rubyvale. 😀

Underground tour was good. Well informed guide. When someone went missing Wendy handle the situation to make sure everyone was safe and accounted for. Only down side was there was a couple on the tour who were sick and passed the flu on to me.

Loved the well informed tour. A Very informative tour. It was an easy stroll through the original mine. And great displays along the way. The history room has some wonderful photos of mining era. The gift shop has a huge variety of jewellery and other items on display for sale. We had a very nice cuppa coffee after the tour.

Such an incredible one in a lifetime tour! Lisa was absolutely incredible. I honestly could listen to her for hours more. Very knowledgeable and humorous!
An absolute must visit if you’re in the area! I absolutely loved the micro bats also!

I highly recommend doing the tour to give you a unique insight into what the old gem hunters experienced. They have a place to fossick. The shop has some beautiful sapphire jewellery to suit all budgets. We thoroughly enjoyed our time at Miner's Heritage.

What a great tour and activity to break up the trip from the desert to the sea. Informative guides take you well beneath the surface in tunnels to explore the previous working mine. The bats were the stars of the show and you must do the bucket to fossic through looking for a star sapphire.

Fantastic tour with all you’d expect of it. Our guide was local, a great storyteller with plenty up her sleeve, interesting explanations about all of it and good with kids too — not mine, I’m just a traveler, but there were families with young kids that didn’t have too much patience nor interest.

Great tour of an underground mine very informative tour guide some old gear above grond mainly old engines didnt try the fair at the cafe so I cant comment extensive jewelery shop somthing for all price levels lots of information there just ask also micro bats live underground

Great walking tour of the mines, very friendly staff and guides. Walk ins available but better to call so you dont have to wait for the next batch. The place has a jewelry store, and a fossicking area where you can buy a bag of dirt and try your luck with finding sapphires. You can have them verified by the staff as well.

Had a fantastic time with the family at this tourism experience at Rubyvale.

We did the mine tour, which was excellent. One of my kids did get claustrophobic and had to head up earlier, but the guide was brilliant and really accommodating.

Paying to do the fossicking was worth the expense. One bucket was more than enough for an hour of fun. Be sure to take your funds inside, the team will tell you if you found any sapphires! The kids found way more little gems then expected, they used their spending money to buy a bag of fossicking rocks to take home 🤣

My only comment would be that this provider does not use an online booking system, so correspondence was via email, would have liked to pay in full before arrival. But a small issue.

Again that you to the Miners Heritage Team on a fantastic experience.

Lisa was amazing with her knowledge and funny stories. The mine with its many holes was very interesting and surprisingly enough very cool. Loved the microbats . I normally can't go into places like that but it was comfortable. Thank you for sharing.
P.s. Next time when the movie is on wine n crackers would be nice...Lisa 🤣🤣😇

Had a terrific tour with my friend tour guide great learnt a lot will be back no doubt with other visitors from VIC

Fun and informative 45 minute tour! Our guide was great to listen to and provided some pretty cool facts and information. The micro bats were adorable! Feels a little cramped when they try to fit 17 people into a group, but awesome regardless.

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I really enjoyed my visit to miners heritage the staff were so friendly really made our visit awesome. Panning for gemstones was fun. There was a group of us all having fun and a really great time. Can't wait to go back next year when I visit my daughter in emerald again. Also on my coach trip back to Brisbane I met some one from Ruby Vale and we talked and said I would catch up with her next year when I come back for my next holiday. Once again meet some truly wonderful people in emerald rubyvale and Springsure.

There's not much to do driving the Great Inland Way, so we were happy to make a small d- tour to visit this place. We didn't do the mine tour, but bought a big bag (€35) with stones, gems and and to see if we can find sapphire in there.

The friendly lady showed our kids how to do it. Explained how we could recognise sapphire and off we went.

This activity was such a fun family activity. We all worked together and managed to find sapphire. You can bring your findings into the shop and there staff will sort out which ones are the real deal.

You can start the mining part anytime during opening hours. It costs €35 for the big bag and €25 for the small one without any extra costs.

If you'd like to do the tour, the sign is only held every 15 minutes past.

Had a great experience at Miners Heritage...from the moment we walked in the staff were cheerful and helpful...the mine tour was great and professional..bought a bag of dirt and sieved and sorted through it found quiet a few small gems recommend visiting.

Staff are friendly and helpful. The tour of the mine is easy with only a few sets of stairs. A lot of jewelry in their store. The Caffe when we were there only had one staff member, so patients is needed if you need your Carine fix, she did make an awesome iced coffee.

What a fantastic afternoon! Lisa 1 was an amazing tour guide - we learnt so much about gemstone mining and even met some micro bent wing bats up close. The tour was informative and fun and we got to go through the mine and see it first hand. Matt then taught us how to fossik - we had so much fun and came away with a huge haul of sapphires and zircon (even found a star sapphire!) Would highly recommend and we will definitely be back again! Such a great day out - thank you!

The staff are very friendly and the underground tour was awesome a must if you come here. You can pan your own buckets or use the bag for 35 and has a sapphire in it already

Very interesting tour. We walked through the mine and the lovely tour guide showed us how and where sapphires are found, how the miners used to dig small "tummy tunnels" and lots of other interesting facts. Loved the tour!