Can You Find Gems In North Carolina? Top Spots Revealed! | Exploring Creation Vids
Can You Find Gems In North Carolina? Top Spots Revealed! | Exploring Creation Vids
Looking for gemstones in North Carolina? Our video shows you where to start! Discover the best places to find quartz, amethyst, and even gold. We’ll guide you through North Carolina’s most famous gem spots. Watch now to learn about gem hunting in NC. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more gem-finding tips!
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Are there any gemstones in the eastern part of the state, like near Elizabeth City?
I remember going to a place called Blue diamond mine and found all kinds of minerals and gems. It was an amazing experience. Was a great way to spend my birthday.
FASCINATING HEARING ABOUT THE CREATION OF THESE MOUNTAINS . BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU
19:35~ Valuable gemstone can be found in NC.
I absolutely love collecting in NC and my collection cabinets are 40-50% Western NC material. I’ve been to Hiddenite, Burnsville, Uwarrie, Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine, Bakersville, Franklin, Lincolnton, etc… all over, it’s an absolutely GORGEOUS state with so much beautiful wilderness… it honestly can move you to tears when you get up into the mountains near Pisgah Nat. Forest.
However… the part that kind of absolutely SUCKS about NC Rockhounding are the greedy jerks who get all the best sites shut down. People who aren’t content with finding a few cool specimens and going home, but those who come in and tear state forest or private property all to hell with machines and such and end up getting these prolific sites CLOSED for ever. Then they go in and claim other sites, close the site off and hoard all the minerals to themselves. I can understand claiming YOUR property, and I certainly understand folks like Jamie Hill who invest personal funds into opening a professional mining operation, but greedy collectors going into free state lands and private areas without permission and damaging the land so badly that state officials/landowners close it to rockhounds for good, well that is just greedy and dumb. You ruin it for everyone, including yourself and all the children of the future who might grow to love this awesome hobby. I was always more than satisfied with taking home 2-3 fine little specimens and leaving the rest for others. God’s creation is for everyone. But greed often takes over and ruins it for everyone, for ever. That part always made me mad.
I got permission on big family farm in the gold belt in NC I’ve found more rocks with freemill gold than alluvial gold in streams. Even though the streams are fun in the summertime. Mainly all little gold the miners left it there they had to go for the big gold being $30 an ounce now look at the price today.
There are frontiers yet to be discovered!
My greatest find was a quartz clovis point I found in Randolph county
My son lives in NC and while I was planting on his property, I noted the clay had consistent glitter in it. What is this?
They were fine particles but very obvious.
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You and your friend Chris remind me of my later brother. He had a passion for geology and geography and educated himself on them. He would take me out driving in the mountains and along the coast here in Washington state and tell me about their history. We would also go rock hounding/crystal hunting together and with friends. I miss him so much and it is a treat to listen to you and be reminded of him. Thank you so much.
I have a place as well. No digging require and all are out in the open. All the stones you mentioned and so many more!
The same rock shoppe also sells books.
Man…. just imagine wandering around the woods because you have nothing better to do and tripping over a 28lb gold nugget.
I know this video is old… but i have a chest full of gems. They are all from local north carolina and was passed down to me via my mentor. It consists of ruby, emerald and amethyst. I was told a man was caving and prospecting near pisgah and gathered them in said cave/cave system. The gems i have is about 9 pounds worth of mostly emeralds. The size of your thumb to a pencil eraser. Most have granite on them that are larger where smaller gets to be almost gem worthy
real truth is there more "myth" than actual fact surrounding the aspects of gold or other things like diamonds there only 3 places in the entirety of north america where diamonds can form 2 are in Canada the others in arkansas.flat out north carolina does not and never has had the geology needed to produce diamonds or much in the way of gold especially at places like the soo called "reed mine" where the vast majority of alleged gold found was "seeded" from that of gold found from shipwrecks off cape hatteras ( mostly from the spanish slave trade) in an attempt to spark up more immigration and trap people in the far flung "wildernesses areas" of the state while others responsible for that subterfuge got rich off selling supplies/land they did not own to would be prospectors …
too many areas formerly "infamous" are "dried up" or "off limits’" due to private properties or state laws :/ it is exceedingly rare to find any actual "gem quality" material without heavy equipment or subsurface mining operations which are flat out not cost effective ..the minor exception to this was the few deep earth mines around the charlotte area that quickly became "totally obsolete"
If you want to find the amazing wonders that are still in the ground you are going to have to lighten up a bit on the restrictions and the closings of locations.
Every day I’m finding more reasons to love my home state. Thanks for the awesome video!
These explanations are laughable 🤣
I use to live in NC and it’s true they have so many different minerals it’s unbelievable.
This is amazing. These Blue Ridge Mountains are special. This is so fascinating and well done. Thank you. ❤
I’ve been collecting minerals with special interest upon NC my home state for 45 years. There’s really few other states with the diversity of NC. I actually saw one of my former emerald specimens in this video that I sold a prominent Raleigh area collector many years ago who passed away several years and donated many specimens to the museum in our state capital. North Carolina lead the nation in gold production until the California strike and it also was the start of the first significant silver discovery in the US. The King’s Mine, later named the Washington Mine and ultimately the Silver Hill Mine produced lead and was one of the few mines commissioned to remain in operation during the civil war so that it could provide the much needed lead for making bullets for the south. Copper, lead, zinc, chromium, molybdenum and other metallic ores also. NC was once a top producer of Tungsten as well with mines in Vance Co., NC that operated well into the 1970’s until the prices of tungsten dropped and it became cheaper to buy imported tungsten but it is estimated that millions of tons of it still exist in NC. In many of the NC ore mines, beautiful examples of ore minerals such a malachite, azurite, cerrusite, pyromorphite, etc. can be found. NC is also a leading producer of talc mainly in the form of pyrophyllite. The Glendon deposit in Moore County is well known for the biggest and best NC pyrite specimens from there, an accessory mineral at the mine. Amethyst from the Reel Mine in Lincoln Co., NC is amongst the finest in the state although amethyst occurs in at least several dozen counties. Smoky quartz from Hiddenite, NC is world class and it to is found in dozens of counties. Garnets of exceptional quality have been found in the western Piedmont and mountains and the Raleigh area. Kyanite, rutile, zircon is also found. Uranium ores have been mined mainly in the western mountain area and include uraninite, torbernite, gummite, autunite, samarskite and others. NC is a leading producer of mica and feldspar with mines primarily in Mitchell, Yancey and Cleveland Counties. Above all is NC emeralds, the best and biggest in the US. Emerald is produced in three counties: Alexander, Mitchell and Cleveland. Golden beryl and aquamarine from the Mitchell, Yancey, Alexander and Macon counties to name a few have afforded many fine gems. NC was once also one of a handful of states to produce ruby in any quality and quantity with famous mines in the Cowee Valley region of Franklin County. Corundum of non-gem quality has been found in many counties but true ruby and sapphire occur in just a handful of localities. NC is truly a mineral collectors paradise.
Wow this sheds some light on my discovery! I live just over the state line in Eastern Tennessee, I am finding small crystals fragments and on some occasions 1-3" long by 14" diameter. I don’t know what to do with them but some are nice others are just fragments. Your video made me more queries about how they got here. Some are on top of the ground others are in the ground.
Did Doug get poison ivy when he was digging?
What a beautiful and educational show. Thank you
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where in NC are you digging? Write me back.
Emerald Hollow in Hiddenite is calling!
My daughter and I were just at the Hiddenite Gem Mine last week !!!
We are truly rock hounds !!!
We’ve been to Hiddenite several times and have enjoyed the fun experience of finding amazing gems 💎 ❤️
I want one