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North Carolina
Gem Mountain, Spruce Pine, NC
Gem locality Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: aquamarine, emerald, moonstone.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: aquamarine/emerald and pegmatite minerals from Spruce Pine district material
Long-running Spruce Pine bucket-flume fee operation using district ore.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Water, cold flume runoff
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