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| What You Can Expect to Find |
| ============================================================================ Carolina Emerald Mine & Vein Mountain Gold Camp 1694 Polly Spout Rd., Marion NC 28752 828-738-9544 ============================================================================ |
| ~ Reservations ~ Call 828-738-9544 |
| 7 Days a week April 1st thru Nov 1st |
| * GOLD * Anyone prospecting at Carolina Emerald Mine & Vein Mt. Gold Camp, with a little hard work can expect to discover fine gold. The use of equipment will improve your gold recovery and possibly lead to pickers and nuggets. We have seen numerous pickers and many nuggets, the largest to date being a nugget just over 1 oz. Prospectors using 4" dredges in the river do the best, some days seeing up to 1 oz. of gold. The second most effective way is to set up a high banker and high bank our dug material. Place a screen at the end of the sluice and inspect the washed stone, and you can see up to sixty different crystals that we have identified in our section of the valley. Facitable diamonds have been found in our area over the last 100 years, we have identified small diamond chips in our black sand concentrates and look forward to a diamond of size being found! |
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| * GEM STONES * Many rock hounds choose to utilize equipment and wash the gold bearing material. We have seen hundreds of emeralds and many other crystals found in this fashion. Some choose to scour the gravel bars of the river or investigate the washed stone from previous prospectors. Crystals pulled from the vein to date include transparent emeralds and aquamarine, beryllium, green transparent tourmaline, almadine and pyrope garnets, moonstone, lg. feldspar crystals, rose / smoky / blue quartz, lg. biotic mica books, iron pyrite, and specimens of visible GOLD. Just 50 feet south of this vein, is a vein that has given up beautiful epidote specimens. Each winter we will expect to excavate from 150 to 600 tons of gold bearing material & have it available for your prospecting pleasure. Rock hound rates on the water flume start as low as $10 for kids and just $20 for adults ... per day. |
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