Emerald
Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium.
Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) colored green by trace amounts of chromium or sometimes vanadium. Beryl has a hardness of 7.5–8 on the Mohs scale. Most emeralds have many inclusions, so their toughness is classified as poor. Emerald is a cyclosilicate. It occurs mainly in association with quartz, muscovite, albite, mica schist, Pyrite schorl, microcline, fluorite, smoky quartz and elbaite.
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Worth seeing in and around Emerald
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Big Easel
The Easel Project is an installation art piece, created by Canadian artist Cameron Cross, and located in the town of Emerald in Central Queensland, Australia.
200 m · sculpture of painting on easel in Emerald, Queensland, Australia · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Whales, at Hervey Bay, the local centre for watching these majestic creatures. The 'singing ship' memorial to Captain James Cook at Yeppoon.
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Things to do
Fossick for gems near the appropriately-named towns of Emerald, Rubyvale and Sapphire. Explore the trails of the pristine Carnarvon National Park. Take a railway tour at the former gold-mining town of Mount Morgan. Prospect for gold at the Prophet Gold Mine in Kilkivan.
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Where to eat
Amazing pies at Joccheim's Bakery in Bowen, in the footsteps of Australia actors Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman.
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Getting to Emerald
- Stations
- Emerald railway station, Queensland, 700 m
- Toowoomba → Emerald589 km · quickest by road, 11h 55m · A$90–120
- Maroochydore → Emerald607 km · quickest by road, 12h 51m · A$95–130
- Brisbane → Emerald657 km · quickest by road, 14h · A$105–140
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Emerald
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Emerald. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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