Ruby & Sapphire Discovery in a North Carolina BACKYARD 🤯 

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Year's ago I managed a school kitchen, a fourth grade girl came into the kitchen with this huge beautiful red rock and says, "look what i found at my grandmother's house on school break last week!" Well it was more then just a rock! I asked her if she knew what a ruby or a Garnett looked like and she said no. I told her she should ask her mom to take her to a jeweler in town that I know and ask him to look at it. It turned out to be a 3lb ruby she was carrying around in her backpack!

In the early 80's I did some work on a new house being built in the Cowee Valley. The backhoe digging the footings pulled out a pocket of rubies with enough gem quality material in it to pay for the cost of the house.

My Aunt and Uncle owned a Ruby mine in Franklin, NC. I used to go visit every summer. I’d go to the mine with them and pan for rubies and sapphires. We used to have jars filled with them. In Jackson County, NC, on my grandfather’s property, we used to find garnets on top of the ground. Some would be as big as golf balls. I miss those days.

imagine buying a property and then discovering you have a fledgling fresh Ruby/Sapphire mine in your brand new backyard like wtf

I lived in Hayesville, on a mountain near Lake Chatuge years ago. We would rock hound the sunken corundum mine. Water level was extremely low that year, a drought, so we got a lot of garnets, rubies and emeralds. Thank you for sharing your video. Happy hunting!

Have never seen a video of anyone finding the huge pieces of ruby and sapphires that y'all are finding. As a rock & gem hound this is so thrilling. Thanks for sharing!🎉

Night digs with UV, seems like the way to go

Imagine that , buying a property and finding gems in the yard. Amazing finding rubies and sapphires just in the ground. Thank you Bryan for sharing

Digging straight down is counterintuitive. You go 8 to 10in down at a time and a crisscross checkerboard pattern. This method has never failed me

Thank you for all your videos. I collect rocks and I've learned so much watching your videos. Always looking forward to the next one

This is so wonderful- thank you for sharing!

why don't you have a bucket of water and an old toothbrush by your side to wash stuff off? Then it's easier to see. You could also design some sort of a cover or portable tent or something so that you can block the sunlight and use an high-power UV light so you can easily spot the UV-reactive ones. I love your videos, keep making great content!

good place finding ruby

What beautiful colors!

what a great find, beautiful Ruby.

That looks like lots of fun! Would love to dig for rubies some day. Thanks for another great video!

Hi Bryan, what an outstanding purchase, a property loaded with Ruby, Sapphire & quartz crystals. Outstanding. Once again a video I couldn’t stop watching. 👍

wow! you guys are very lucky. Beautiful and big ruby!

I like crystal collector he’s the best crystal collector EVER!!!!

If you are in NC, give Crabtree Emerald Mine near Spruce Pine a try!

Love the videos. Thanks for sharing

As a couple other people below noted, those two around the 4:00 to 5:00 mark may have quartz coloration (or lack thereof), but the shapes definitely look a bit more like sapphire than tessin floaters. Have them tested if you haven't already. Anyway, looks like a fun place to dig. Thanks for all the great videos!

Very awesome! Can't wait to start doing digs again! Give little adorable Matrix my love 🙏♥️

Those are cool ruby's and sapphires mixture

-It was a fun day, digging with you at Propst! Good info in the video for anyone thinking about going.

Thanks, always great explanations.

That was a fun experience. Matrix love 🐶

Yes!!!!Now we're talking! My birthstone.

Thanks for sharing! I wish I lived out your way. I'm in Colorado and going to Ruby Mountain this week! Blessings!

Love a fresh new video, not a repeat one. Thank you Bryan!

Thank you for sharing, another great video!!♡

Yes its so awesome to find stuff like that any time.just never know when it's going to happen in life

Love the videos. Very inspiring

Awesome I’m glad Dana scored a good one

Love and Enjoy so much watching all of your videos brother keep up the amazing job I wish you the best of luck on all of your adventures ❤🙏🏻💪🏻

Being from nc. I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this video. Ty

Bryan, it’s been awhile for me. So glad to see you in my feed, I’m “diggin’” this new site. So cute to hear Matrix’s 🐶 little motor-like growl disapproval 😆 1st time I’ve seen the cool graffiti art work on your RV. We used to call those “bombs” in the 80s. I might be out dating myself, but, guess we can say it’s the bomb cause you’re the bomb! 😜😂 Can’t wait to see your next adventure! Much love from SoCali! 🤗😊

I have to watch more of your videos. But I have to go to this place I love rubies. Thanks for sharing. 😅😅

Thanks Brother... Nice place 4tru... Crystal and Ruby finder today... 💚👍🏻💖

good research for finding ruby❤

Love you guys, y’all my fav

Happy, happy, happy dog👍🏻

I can watch these vids all day 😂

I seen you and your camper on highway 61 south of dubuque iowa(thinking last summer). One day. To bad we couldn't have met and had a chat about crystals and other gemstones. Really enjoy your videos. Keep up the fun work.

Hey Brian I’m the kid who met u. My name is Kamdin and I love wa your videos cus I love ur videos and every night I watch your videos 😊😊

Matrix growling at the baby was cute

Noth'n to write home about... definitely worth dropping a postcard in the mailbox ❣️😋👍🎶

I lov that kind of job digging any worth rocks its fun and it could be worthy🥰✌️🙏

I found a sapphire mine when I was 11, IV been going there every week for 20 yrs and I havnt told a soul where it is

Those people apparently have a corundum conundrum in their backyard . What a nice mystery or problem to have. I'm not a serious or knowledgeable rockhound, but I have done it for fun. Since corundum glows under that particular light, do some people dig at night while using the light ? Looks like they'd be easier to find if you did that. Enjoyed the video. It was so inspiring I'm gonna go dig up my ex's backyard since she's out of town for a few days. No telling what or who is buried in there.😆

I have a beautiful property on Pinch Gut Creek just a stone's throw from Propst. The recent rains and this wet spring have blessed me with so many beautiful crystals, lil crystal clusters and lots of gorgeous bloodstones, my personal favorite. I'm in love with the mix of greens and reds they are popping! I have multiple tumblers running 24/7, I'm rockhounding every weekend now the weather has turned and it's into the high 80s. Hubby can't keep me out of the water! I'm almost ignoring the quartz crystals now in favor of the beautiful bloodstones, I'm sure you would be mad at me 🤣🤣🤣. Keep at it guys, there are so many beauties to be found in this area! Nice finds guys!

I love propst farm, record size rubys come out of there. I have found one the size of a tennis ball

Wow haven't seen a video from u in months...♥️♥️♥️♥️

Happy digging

Dope. My mom lives in NC. I'm sending it to her now

So crazy, right down the road from me is Propst, great video and anymore prospecting you plan to do around here? I’m out of construction now but can still dig a good bit but have an amateur appreciation for prospecting

Hey Bryan! Loved that video. Looks like a fun dig. Attracted to the shape and glow. Gonna send you a pic of one I have.

Good for you

Behind you in North Carolina! Just subscribed!

I grew up in northern Iredell county and worked in Alexander county in hiddenite at the emrald hallow mine. Mike and Dottie are the best! If you ever get around that area stop by

DANG!!!! The are some monster sized sapphires 🤪🤪🤪

Nice 🎉🎉🎉

Greathings from Germany. Matthias

Parabéns amigo

Great video! Thank you SO much for taking the time to share about this place! ❤ I hope you had a great time while you were there! QUESTION---- How is their payment system set up? Do they charge you by the pound for what you take out of there, or is it set up differently? Thank you so much and God bless! ❤

Ur living my dream lol ❤

Some of those would make AMAZING cabochons, some of the less clear more cracked ones would make good desk ornaments. If you find a perfect pristine crystal that has amazing clarity, there is nothing else to do really except wrap it in gold or silver and wear it as it is, or put it away somewhere. I would wear mine if I found one

Please do a opal hunting !

I haven't been to Propts in years but found stuff every time I went. My best find there was a 4" long tapered one. I have seen piece's that had somewhat "gemmy" spots in them but the best one that I ever saw was found many years ago and part of an old collection that has been since handed down to a grandson of the deceased owner of the collection. This piece was found in area on the property that is not open to collecting anymore. The piece was a yellowish barrel shaped corundum about 1 1/2" in length x 3/8" in width slightly tapered crystal that was translucent in the lower half and completely transparent in the upper half. This was one of the few transparent ones that I ever saw from there. The collector who had this was very trustworthy and honest and I had no doubt of its authenticity. He had dug many Propost corundums in the early days of the site and had only found three like this. The others sold off long before and this was his only one. Another collector who I once knew was also a fixture at Propst many years ago once should me a diamond, yes diamond that he found on the property. It was supposedly way on the back of the property and again, he is deceased as well and his collection dispersed at auction some years ago. With that much corundum on the site, it isn't surprising that diamond, garnet, quartz and other minerals are there I think that most people aren't looking for anything other than corundum so it often gets overlooked and is not easily detected in the thick clay.

This property is less than 5 miles from my home. I will have to check it out soon!

I live in south carolina, red clay is crazy, ive found amythest and really rich smoke quarts and rose quarts in my back yard, even found a native american arrow head a few houses down on a trail

I dug in my backgarden and found a giant amethyst cluster well not that big and rare but still its very good

Omg I want to go I NEED to go please!!!!!

And I just found a a bunch of diamonds in my back yard. In Wake County! Yeeehaaaaa.

Back in the 80s, many in town would fix their eyes on Ruby and Sapphire. Those were their stage names 🍸

I'm here for the cute doggie

Visited Hiddenite mine's in N.C. not surprised!

Its very good u like

cool

Old disabled house bound dusty rusty rockhound here: Finding this on your property is like winning the lottery for for rockhounds! "Wha-a-a-at!

Can you show the cleaned de-iron-ed crystals afterceach vid. Curious aboutbthose rubies. They looked cool, but dark and rocky. Need to see shiny clean.

pretty cool, probably the easiest mining anyone could ask for.

Cool vid :) Can't help but think, shouldn't you just create a dark box around those rocks you separate as you are prospecting and use the flashlight to make the ones that are rubis shine? That sounds so much more efficient than trying to clean and observe each one by hand

My cousins own Mason's Mine and Cowee Gift Shop in East Franklin, NC. Thats exactly what they sell.

Saludos amigo que buen video hermano

If Brian hadn’t had a blue T-shirt, I could almost mistaken him as part as the diggs. Hahahaha It’s been a while but thank for this video my friend.

Would love to search for Saphire and Ruby.I found my first diamonds. 0,67ct 19 Stones. Hope that i found bigger Stones in the Future. 😊Greetings from Austria

the first time i went there like 8 years ago, you could go off into the woods pretty much anywhere, when i went again about 4 years ago, they had a small like maybe 50 by 50 foot area you could dig, looks like theyve changed it again? i guess it would be worth going back and doing some digging.

Could you use the uv light and look at night when its cool?

I have soo many outside my moms home 😊😊😊

I have been watching ur videos for a few years now and I have Rock fever.. lol one day I will get to go hunting ❤ I found these in Somerset Kentucky . But I don't know very much about them if u don't mind will u look at them and tell my what Thay are.. lol Thay maybe just old rock. 😅

Hey Brian!! My family is coming down to Diamond Hill Mine the first full week in June!! Are you going to be in the area? We’re from PA! ❤

Sounds like Matrix has had enough of your rocks.😂

👍 Watching your channel 👍 Hello from Virginia my friend 🇺🇸🇺🇸 When you coming to Virginia 👍

How do you know whats on your property besides digging? We have mineral rights on ours but no clue whats there. I have metal detectors and they do go off frequently but I also dont know what Im looking for. Have a nice nail collection lol Enjoying your videos Bryan!!

Alexander county’s full of gems!

I would love to go with you sometime and show you my Super power of finding gems with out looking for them ! Its awsome and you will be amazed by how i do it❤

Took a quick peek at you video gallery have you been to Hiddenite NC? Its an emerald hotspot. My brother found one pretty much on the side of the road while working.

Love to all!