Ruby & Sapphire Crystal Mining @ Cherokee Mine in North Carolina 

Thanks for the support, the likes, shared, and subs🙌🙏 *correction* Rhyolite is the correct spelling, I got in a rush there at the end of video 😆

6:00 *zooms in on stones* "Do you see it? DO YOU SEE IT?!" Me: I SEE IT! *picks up gemstone* Me: But.. that's not the one I saw…

Pro tip: Save all the small stuff and take home. Spread a small amount on lexan, add a little water, lightly shake to level it all out, and illuminate from UNDERNEATH. Anything transparent lights up nicely. You wont miss anything this way.

Your shows are guaranteed to bring a smile....at the very least! I'm ooing and awwing all over the place. Great work Brian. Safe trip. ✌

Salted buckets often have more stuff but takes away some of the fun and unpredictability of mining local soil.

He's the Bob Ross of geology

I have amazing memories of my mother and aunt taking me as a young’n to an unsalted mine in the smokies. I remember the little garnets; each one was a treasure! Thank you for a great prompt for that memory. I will definitely take my teens soon to that very spot!

Stopped there 3 years ago ended up back the next day also. They were soo nice and helped double check each bucket. Found plenty of gems and saw a 12 ct sapphire come out next to us..awesome

I couldn't see any of them until you picked them up lol. They are gorgeous Bryan and I imagine a great deal easier òn the body than digging the out. Take care my friend, good luck and happy hunting Mary-Ellen UK

I love this place. Miss Effie was a spitfire when she ran it. We mined at Schuler just down way until it closed in the 90s. My family vacationed in Cowee Valley every October for about 25 yrs. Now we go occassionally in June.

Man that looks like a great time. Hanging by the flume with other rock lovers lookin for nature’s treasures 👌💎✨

My wife and I just went , had a good time. The operators were super helpful, informative, knowledgeable. You get everything you need , you don’t lug the bucket it’s right there for you. All in all a better time than I had imagined. Oh yeah we found gems!

I just mined Oregon Sun stones because I was inspired by you! I love your videos!

This place is on my list of places to go when I get my driver's license

I vacationed in Cowee Valley every October growing up. The tradition was started before I was born and continued until my grandfather died in my 20s. There would be 6-16 family members depending on who could get away. We mined at Schuler's until Guy died and then Cherokee with Miss Effie. I am sure she is long gone but, Cowee Valley felt like my second home. I am glad there are still a couple of unsalted mines left in the Smoky Mountains. My grandfather wouldn't have it any other way. He spent most of our vacation with his but on a bench and his hands in freezing muddy water.❤️

Thank you so much for this video! What a perfect way to spend the day! You are so fortunate.

One of my bucket list things to do is visit some of the gem mines you visit. Luckily for me my husband is up for it too. Thanks for sharing your finds.

I really enjoy your videos and learned some tips for digging from you. So thank you. I live near payson Arizona area. And love finding the quartz scepters there. You gave me good ideas of where to look and how to dig. .thank you .

Wow. You have excellent eyes for those little bitty ones, I was just ah looking so close to see, everytime you would say, you see that. And no I couldn't see it until you picked it out. Lols. So Beautiful. I would like to do this. I would totally enjoy it.

I love what you do. You have beautiful hands and you are a gorgeous soul. More beautiful than any gem on earth.

The live stream was at a different location, that video will be out soon also, the edited version 🙌⚒💎💎💎

0:16 5:50 ruby UV light 0:32 North Carolina 0:41 1:13 unsalted unadultered straight from mine 3:34 6:48 garnet 4:18 kyanite 4:31 sillimanite 5:22 6:10 sapphire corondum 7:58 collection

Yes, my Home State has so many beautiful gemstones and even some gold! Was hoping you'd pull out a few of the gumball rubies and sapphires! But truth be known, amethyst and topaz (blue) are my favorites! WTG!

Was out there this weekend. Had an awesome time and thanks for the tips. Found 5 sapphires with a total weight of 4.85 karats

Feels like a piece from Steven universe, rubies and sapphires with garnets

If you ever get to Montana you should visit the sapphire mine in Phillipsburg, MT. Great video. Thank you for sharing

Thank you so much! It really makes me appreciate the little Sapphire chips I just bought.

We totally save our pill bottles for our finds! Also save the much bigger plastic cat treat giant things....you never know how big of a stone you might find! LOL

This is Zeke from Cherokee Ruby Mine. I love this video and so many of our customers have watched it. We would like to invite you back and waive your admission fee. We will also give you a private tour of the grounds.

I mined the Cherokee for over 20 years when Effie owned it and also when Rays family had it! Over the years I have found numerous sapphires and ruby and had Bob cut the better ones, yes I knew now about the Cherokee!

It's a plus when you love what you do. You are awesome Man

Thankyou for sharing. Looks like a fun way to spend an afternoon.

Great finds. I'm going to have to take a trip or two until Jackson's crossroads opens back up. Love your videos and great help into what to look for. Thanks for the lesson. 👍👍

Love your videos!! Matrix is a cutie! What kind of dog is he? Love your Enthusiasm when your digging & find something! We are from West Texas.

I was just out that way a week ago. So many great places to gem hunt and not enough time.

Wow I love watching your channel... Godbles... From the Philippines

Awesome, great stuff👍 Thank you for sharing sir🙏 You Rock Mate👌 - You definitely inspire me to get my whole family out on mineral hunt next weekend💎 (Kenneth Prospecting Norway)

Great finds Brian. Never heard of "salted buckets" before. Learned something new lol. Thanks for sharing :-)

Awesome!! I really like the new look but, I really liked the previous also & someday! I would really like to go on some adventures like the ones you are doing.... 🙏❤

ruby? sapphire? garnet is that you

Your videos are always so interesting!! im hoping to get more into rock collecting! thanks for the inspiration!

That was a very fun live stream to watch. Please do more of those when you can.

Ruby, don't take your love to town.

greetings cristal colecktor. brain. I am very happy with your videos. and fan of you. keep making videos. so that I can continue to enjoy the beautiful finds you make here in Belgium. I also love minerals and gemstones. but here in Belgium we don't find that much. most minerals are calcite. Greetings Erik from Belgium.

Yet another great video, the unsalted would be more exciting. I love all the different places you get too. Thank you

That looked really fun! Someday I would love to go and do that! Is there a way you can increase the volume of your recording? Lost half of what you said.

Beautiful stones. I'm a fairly new subscriber and I really do enjoy your content, I also watch the crystal collector as well, and enjoy the co lab videos. Keep up the great work. Eric Steinmann 👍

I always watch your videos keep making them

I just bought a $50 bag of dirt from here because we didn't make it in time to go through it there. My hubby made me a screen thingy and I'm already finding all of what you showed in your video! Next time I go there I'm definitely making a day of it.

Me and my SON LOVE YOUR CONTENT BROTHER, KEEP UP THE HARD WORK AND brilliant marketing man. Great videos ALL OF THEM, just keep in mind lil guys/girls watch

*Garnet wants to know your location*

I just subscribe to your channel. I loveee your videos! No clickbait!, Pure crystal clear..

I've wanted to go to the place for years. Normally you'll find me roaming North Florida's beaches looking for shark's teeth and other treasures but gemstones have always been a passion of mine as well. I would like to go crystal digging in Arkansas & Missouri too.

The colors are very nice. But I don’t find it very exciting finding little tiny slivers if stones. I guess I like the salted buckets best.

Hey whats up? another great video.i am heading to Missouri mines rockswap this weekend.hanging out with Noodles+ the Red dirt rockhounds hope you make it down.

Your sieveing technique is masterful.

looks like you got a few spessartine Garnets!!! I love those!

Aunt Minnie's old hydrocodone bottles , never ending supply from way back when .

My new favorite channel 😀👍

Fascinating. My wife and I will try to go there next year.

I will have to come here!! Was plannuing on Crater of diamonds but I am a ruby lover and it is my birthstone.

North Carolina I believe has gold, did you check the flume where you put the tailings in from the screen?? Gold is 19.1 times heavier than water it will drop right there if it is large enough. Does not mean that area has gold but if you put a riffle in that flume it would collect there.

This is my first video game f yours I have watched love it I look forward to new ones

my wife and me are going to Franklin North Carolina in July and we are curious are they any other minds along with this one you would recommend.we will be there a week. We have enjoyed reviewing Viewing your videos !!!

Hey man we love your channel we always watch. Can I ask what is your light you’re using to look at the gems? Thank you in advance hope you see this!!

It might be easier to spot the gems if you spread the washed gravel thinly on a small piece of screen attached to a frame, then hold it up to the sun and look from under it. The sun will shine through the sapphires but the other stones will block the light.

Does the Cherokee high-grade their ore first and then give you the spoils? Or is it possible to find a legit large cutter there? I like digging at Propst farm. It's hard work, and sometimes the hornets chase you near the barn, but you can dig some real bad boys out of that gravel layer and know that no one has been high-grading through that ground.

Good job, good eye, just one bit of advice, be sure to scrub the gravels with your hands against that screen. Muddy waters and clays can hide the good stuff. Happy trails sir.

Watched part of this live, love ur videos man!

Been there a couple times>>>>>loved it!!

That is a great place to learn and have fun

Wonder how many stuff gets thrown away because people don't know what they've got? I certainly would have no idea. But this looks like a cool afternoon Nice finds too

Nice cut bro

Have you been to Hiddenite? Is that mine near Asheville? Theres a kind of crystal mine in Kings Mountain, but not open to the public. I think, after a 3 day training class, be allowed to either look & take, or just explore. Thanks 🤓 did you find any gold there? Been to Reeds gold mine

Wow such a cool channel my friend! New subscriber 😀 I like real buckets where they done add anything to 👍🏼 I’d rather get nothing just to no it’s not salted. Enjoyed your channel. See you on the next one

I could do this all day long. I'm from the UK so we dont have this apart from the salted type. I'm a fossil hunter though. Many fossils in our area in all the limestone in the fields. Keep up the good work

I go panning up here in Maine. I think I'd like to try out these screens this season. Other then gold I find alot of gems, even diamonds. Most interesting is finding black diamonds. Always an egg shaped rock but inside is a beautiful black Diamond. I once found a blue sapphire as big as my head.

Love your videos! I always learn something! I'm thinking of looking for drusy(?) quartz here where I live in the Ozarks of Missouri 😊

Mined there from 1980 till 2005 looks like you’re going through the tailings

Great video as usual Bryan and what great finds! Looking forward to the edited version of the live stream! Also thanks for the bonus items in the last eBay purchase. My wife and I had fun cleaning all the mud and dirt off the specimen. 💎👍😮

Love your videos!

Such nice people & a lot of fun!

Hello ! Geeat video. How much does the entrance cost and how much does it cost for each bucket?

I want to do what you are doing! Looks so fun. Good video and your haircut looks nice, too! 😊

Me: there are a lot of little rocks Him: thats a sapphire, thats a ruby, thats a kynite. Me: so..... its a a lot of special littke rocks?

Amazing I wish one day go in one mine like that .... thank you to share with us

So enjoyed watching this.

I'm going there soon, can't wait. 😝

Looks like gravel and pearock to me. What is the value of these pebbles? I mean, is there any? Beyond the thrill of the hunt?

Me and my cousins were there back in 2001 we was near there working for 3 days and found ourselves there on every break at lunch we became addicted because we were gamblers at heart oh and by the way I still have all the gems that I pulled out of their wich included blue sapphires rubies emeralds and of course garnets ,darnet

We saw you at the machine dig at Jackson's Crossroads! Are you planning on posting a video of that trip, or did the rain scare away the cameras? :)

I just gotta say something, i sure do love mining but i dont have any bigger tools other than a hammer and three chisels but its cool! All i do is just break rocks and there is geodes here where i live and they are very deep down havent found any yet but my friend has great channel!

Oh no. I definitely saw a moonstone in that frame you chucked out.

Hey buddy, how much are the buckets there? They look like 3 gallon instead of 5 gallon? Looks like more fun.

Have you ever been to Hiddenite in NC? My fave place. Havent been in over 15 years but it is so fun! The Hiddenite emerald is also pricey if you find one! Also have you been to arkansas?! My friends live there, they say that it is nothing to find gems and crystals out for a walk in the backyard.

Fantastic adventure cool finds and a great verity 🤙🏻

I would miss EVERYTHING, I just can't see them when they're in the rock piles! But so cool, I want to try anyway.

Did you say BUTTERFLIES!?!??? I'm totally going there someday

Idk why I looked for this video, but it's pretty fun. Btw, if I would try to do this i couldn't identify the difference and will end up collecting all the stones and let the buyer buy all of the rocks WHAHAHA.

Genius set up. Find the chunks and sell the dust.