Gem Mining

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Have fun with your family at Bear Tracks Gem Mine. We are so excited to offer this new adventure. Bring your friends and family to Bear Tracks, relax, and discover the beauty the mountains of Western North Carolina has to offer.

Bear Tracks Gem Mine has a covered flume, benches and picnic tables. You can spend a few minutes or an afternoon sifting through the dirt to discover a wide variety of gems. Our miners find citrine, amethyst, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, aquamarine, quartz, tourmaline, moonstone, unikite, pyrite and many others.

It's exciting discovering gems with a wide variety of beautiful colors, each with their own unique characteristics. You will be able to take home a bag of treasures that will help to create your own special memories from the mountains.

Bear Tracks also sells agate slabs, wind chimes and bookends, a variety of polished stones, geodes, crystals and many other gem treasures.

GEM MINING PRICES:

 

Tubing

Size   Price
2 ½ Qt. Kids Bucket   $10.00
2 Gal. Bucket   $20.00
3 ½ Gal. Bucket   $35.00
5 Gal. Bucket   $50.00
     

 

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RETAIL SHOP:

 

Gemstones, Agate

 

We have a variety of different rocks and gems available! Some of our items include agate bookends, agate slabs, gem trees, salt lamps, amethyst cathedrals, crystal points, geodes and so much more! After a day of mining when you go home with a bag full of rough gemstones, don't leave without one of our Lortone Rock Tumblers!