Sapphire mining at Gem Mountain

[badback22]

Most instructive Thank you :)

[Ganadun]

I sell my stones from as little as $4 each for cut sapphires around the .2 carat range and I have a few I would ask $200 for but most of them would be from 25-$70 ish. I also have all other types of colored gemstones available PM me if youre interested

[LanaV6]

Sapphires are my favorite. I wish I could go mining out there for them. It is a lot of fun.

[oceanghost2006]

how mcuh?



[evanbixbite24]

When I was on vacation in Tennessee, I found a bird's egg sized sapphire at a mine. Although all of the stones were "salted" into buckets, it was preety cool to find a sapphire that big.

[darkx967]

@evanbixbite24 where at in tn?

[Deadlock703]

Are the any in fairfax VA becasuse i always dreamed of minging is there any in creeks

[Michaeltanase]

Cool video man. I just want to know if other people are allowed in the mine.

[chickenbuttlolhaha]

i mined gold in south dakota in the black hills but it is 24karat gold is extremely flaky :I

[Ganadun]

it is a lot of work and a lot of time to sort through it... but the finished stones are worth a good deal of money and are so beautiful. I should take some video of my finished stones...maybe sometime in the next few weeks I'll post a video of my sapphires... my whole collection is hundreds of stones so it would take too long.

[HungKiet]

cool but take a lot of hard work

[Ganadun]

I sell gemstones of all types... i get my stones wholesale and mine direct whenever I can and that keeps my prices low. If I dont have it in stock I can always get anything you want. I am currently working on a website but it won't be up until mid june or so. PM me for my e-mail or facebook info to look at gem photos

[losangelesboys]

wanna sell any ?

[Ganadun]

yes I sell all my rough gems and my faceted finished gems. PM me for my e-mail address and we can work something out. If you have facebook ask me for my name and add me and you can look at all my photos of gems there.

[Ganadun]

This is from the Gem mountain mine in Montana, not North Carolina. The mine is for Sapphire, ruby, diamond and garnet.... there is no emerald in this area.

[QuietBearr]

I had them mail me a bucket-o-rocks and I found a good amount of everything, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, etc... Check my video.

[Ganadun]

was that the gem mountain in N.C. or in Montana... the montana mone doesn't contain any emeralds because emerald is in the beryl family and beryl doesnt occur there in any abudance...sapphire and ruby are corrundum and they are quite plentiful there.

[QuietBearr]

N.C.

[PiratePoltergeist]

i need some help on what to look for when you do this. thank you

[Ganadun]

you basically look for anything transparent or glassy. If you settle the sapphires to the bottom of the pan and flip it like I did in this video, they should be sitting on top because theyre heavier than most stones. They look like little rounded pieces of broken glass... they can pretty much be any color.... blue and pink or red are most valuable.

[Taydrum]

I want to go back now :(

[firestar070]

I have been looking for a mine like this but it has to be near pennsylvania. Any good places in the east?

[QuietBearr]

North Carolina is loaded with them, some in Jersey too, you can mine diamonds in Arkansas

[FunnyBoyz79]

the clear one is not a sapphire

it has to be blue and brown.

[Ganadun]

Corrundum occurs in all colors and it also occurs clear without color...

Ive been mining these for years and I also heat treat and facet them into finished stones...

Don't tell me what is and is not a sapphire.