Ruby & Sapphire Crystal Mining @ Cherokee Mine in North Carolina

[Applause] right there that's it that is a ruby first Ruby found a couple sapphires but that's the first over that bloom if I drop it fun today we're in North Carolina and we're gonna be mining for some rubies and sapphires here at the Cherokee mine this is not salted which means they don't add anything to their buckets when you get these buckets it all comes out of the mine which is about 300 yards behind us here and you purchase these buckets and then you take them out and you go through them let's go check it out this is gonna be awesome look at these butterflies you guys Wow so this location has something very special about it that I really enjoy these buckets here are unsalted that's right they're not like these salted buckets that have all the stuff that people have put in them that you know is already going to be there these are unsalted that comes straight out of the mine so let's get to it so here you get the screams they provide those for you they provide these jars to put your finds in and they provide these awesome mats to sit on let's get to it so what you want to do is put about 25% of this bucket into this screen you could put a little more or less and it's pretty easy you stick it in the water here shake it around a bit use your hands clean it up [Applause] so after you've shaken them out a little bit wrung the dirt off you can go through here I like to throw these bigger pieces out first so you can see the smaller ones a little bit easier and several things you want to do you want to look for color shape maybe a little bit of luster from some of the moonstone it comes you got a three soak it rinse them off a little bit more there [Applause] all right let's check her out you might want to give these big rocks a look before you go throwing them too crazy because you never know this one's got garnets all in it we're gonna keep that just because it'll clean up nice garnets all in there look at that must be a hundred garnets in this little matrix there's another one of those garnet pieces they're got several garnets in matrix might polish out and be kind of cool tiny piece of kyanite there that tiny blue kyanite piece and some cinema night will still ammonite right there so you're gonna find a little something a little tiny garnet in each of these buckets here but it's not going to be like the salted buckets which really you know if you want to take a chance on finding something really really nice this is the way to do it [Applause] oh that's a sapphire so this half-hour may be small but it sure is awesome look at that Sheen that glimmer there and when it hits the light and this thing is see-through doesn't really have much blue pretty cool though so Josh just now found this sapphire it's got a little blue tint to it nice job there you can see how it reacts with the UV light what a great find all right there is a sapphire right there do you see it do you see it right there it's really small but you can see the striations of the shape so you get a little small sapphire or what's also called corundum sometimes you get some very Jimmy garnets and you'll think they're Ruby at first check it out [Music] see it right there super Jimmy lose it and there it is super Jimmy garnet just right out of the pan me check this out right there that's gotta be it let's see if it'll show off any yeah little bit there you can see the little red tinge from the side look at that that's it that is a ruby first Ruby found a couple sapphires but that's the first Ruby of the day look at that I better not hold it over that flume if I drop it so Matt and Lisa here are the owners the staff they do it all they are awesome and helping you out if you never been gem mining over before this is a great play they're really good at helping out they will even help you look through your screen if you're not sure that can help you identify these minerals and gems and sapphires and rubies will double-check your material and make sure you didn't miss anything yeah so you can see just after a couple of hours of digging through a few buckets here found a couple of rubies three sapphires and all kinds of other neat stuff look at the color of these rights this really surprised me super Jimmy purple pinkish colors they're almost like a hot pink very vibrant these are really nice ooh I like garnets and you also had some other type garnets you had Kainat you got sillimanite you had rutile all kinds of things look at this sapphire here though you can see the way the sheen see that if you were to polish this down you'd probably get a star right from that pretty cool more of a silver light blue colored sapphire and then you get the two rubies here they had the same effect these have a touch of a lightish blue but they also have a little bit of a red in their legit rubies nice stuff and here's that buy type gone it's lightly polished kyanite these garnets these are the Almondine or the pi wrote maybe pi wrote garnets probably the rutile 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Channel: The Crystal Collector

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Keywords: ruby, sapphire, rubies, diamond, diamond mining, ruby mining, sapphire mining, sapphires

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Length: 9min 53sec (593 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 10 2019