Ooh, it sounds like you got some lovely ones! A really nice thing about Phillipsburg is the folks who own the candy store also own The Sapphire Gallery and they heat treat and cut stones in-house, I just had a bunch of them done there, it only takes 2 months, have about 20 more carats worth I am sending to them, including a very large dark blue and a purple, I LOVE mining sapphires:)
Definitely gonna have to take a trip to Helena too it sounds like, I want to hit them all lol
!PIZZA
!BBH
Spokane bar sapphire mine is pretty cool and we have been a couple times. The value of a faceted sapphire can make it SUPER worth the adventure. It took 3 months for ours to be done with their in house gem cutter. We will have to check out the Phillipsburg mine for sure.