SAPPHIRE VILLAGE — It's easy enough to get across ... This, of course, is where Montana's famous Yogo sapphires come from. You'll pass the gates to the Vortex Mine, now owned by a Bozeman ...

"Montana can be back on the map for producing ... Many are held by residents of Sapphire Village, a community about 80 miles from Great Falls, on the east side of the Little Belts.

But in the scheme of Montana geography, this big "hill" is the northernmost point of the Sapphire Range, an 85-mile-long massif that forms the eastern perimeter of the Bitterroot Valley.