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Rubies
Dec 10 2007, 5:36 PM EST
I found over 5 carats of North Carolina Rubies at the Sheffield mine outside of Franklin, NC. I had the biggest one, a 3.5 carat rock cut and made into a truly beautiful necklace. I HIGHLY recommend the Sheffield mines, they are inexpensive, fun and truly exciting! The employees are very helpful and informative! For a great DAY (and I do mean day, we got there at 10 AM and didn't leave until after 3pm) go to Sheffield mines! It is absolutly worth the twenty dollars my boyfriend and I spent!
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treebaby |
1. RE: Rubies
Dec 14 2007, 8:36 AM EST
than you we are looking for a family trip/adventure in rockhounding.
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tcboone |
2. RE: Rubies
Dec 15 2007, 5:54 PM EST
Absolutely, while we were there many families (and children) were panning with us. They have all sorts of different buckets you can chose from including the native buckets (where you will find the rubies) and those that are enriched (you are guaranteed to find semi-precious stones). My boyfriend didn't have any luck with the native buckets and panned in these and found alot of gorgeous quartz and a few amethysts too! There is a website for the mine http://www.sheffieldmine.com/ and I highly recommend perusing it before you go.
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ModerndayEdison |
3. RE: Rubies
Dec 28 2007, 5:54 AM EST
Thanks, I will check them out next time I am down in that area.I am an entrepreneur looking for ways to put the start-up capital together to put a new type of Alternative Energy based Motor Company together. I have designed a new type of drive train power plant that will run without gasoline or fuel and I am wanting to have it built and patented for a variety of uses in several different industries besides the Auto Industry alone. But banks and lenders haven't been very cooperative because I have found that they all leverage their quarterly earnings by investing in the petroleum industry in one form or another. This is why Alternative Energy based companies have been slow to enter the open markets with their product lines. I am thinking about going on an eploritory tour of all these places featured on Cash and Treasure and other similar locations to see just how much net worth in Treasure I can assemble over a 5 or 10 year period. Selling off a portion to live on during that time. Especially gold prospecting in Arizona and Nevada. How much could a guy find if he did it full time and made a living at it for a while as a drifter or Greyhound bus patron traveling to these different locations to try his luck? It sounds like an interesting adventure, and potentially a lucrative one at that. I am thinking about doing it. 3 out of 10 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ModerndayEdison |
4. RE: Rubies
Dec 28 2007, 6:15 AM EST
Last may of 2006 when I was laid off from my last job as a machinistin the Railcar Manufacturing Industry here near St. Louis, MO. I was informed by my former employer that I now have a higher degree of formal education and industry experience than one of the greatest inventors in the history of American Industry... Thomas Alva Edison. They knew this because Edison invented the Electric Locomotive and they were well aquainted with his abilities as an understated innovator, and they knew about my background in several different industries as well which has closely parallelled Edison's career. But I was not aware of it until they brought it to my attention last year. Upon further investigation into the matter I learned that Edison was ousted from General Electric in 1919 shortly before the formation of General Motors for attempting to have a self-sufficient Electric Automobile mass produced by General Electric's production teams without board approval, acting alone as an individual board member as he had done in the past with so many of his other inventions that helped build General Electric from the ground up. But that one invention pitted General Electric against their core investors in the oil industry and Edison's work became a liability for General Electric... so they ousted him from the company. Learning this, and seeing the current gas prices, has presented an interesting opportunity for an independent and capable entrepreneur such as myself. All that gold, and all those gems... just sitting out there waiting to be found and used for start-up capital to start a business. I hope you are as enlightened and as inspired as I am by all this. 1 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ModerndayEdison |
5. RE: Rubies
Dec 28 2007, 6:26 AM EST
A privately held company can't oust it's founder and owner.And... if a company were to make a side venture that is on-going out of prospecting for precious metals and stones it could essentially be it's own banker eliminating the need to solicite investors or lenders. I like the sound of that... besides, that very approach is what made Andrew Carnegie so successful, but that is another story. Happy hunting ya all. 0 out of 8 found this valuable. Do you? |
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ModerndayEdison |
6. RE: Rubies
Dec 28 2007, 6:52 AM EST
There is much to be learned in the way of missed opportunitiesin history. There is gold in them there history books. Most people never even think about such things, and that is the way big industry likes it. An ignorant consumer is a lucrative one. Just 50 years ago a company would have gone broke trying to sell bottled water. Now look what's happening. See my point? I am a student of industry... and I am one of the few people that are noticing these trends, and looking for ways to act on any and all opportunities presented by them. I am coming up with some good ideas but they all require start-up capital to setup shop. If you are interested in this stuff you can visit my website. Here's the link. http://www.geocities.com/carljstone45/contributions.html It was actually a failed attempt to operate an online fund raiser campaign until I realized that I was only one of a few hundred thousand groups trying to raise money this way on the internet, but it is a good source of information about me and what I am preparing to do. I will get out of your hair now and leave you guys alone. 1 out of 8 found this valuable. Do you? |
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7. RE: Rubies
Jan 5 2008, 8:55 AM EST
I just joined and have been looking at the mines in NC. looks like they would be a good place to start. I live in TN. so it would not cost an arm and leg to get there,thanks for the info.
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bucfanpaka |
8. RE: Rubies
Jan 24 2009, 10:03 PM EST
If anyone wants a shot at finding true blood-red rubies, of which many are facet-quality, definitely check out Cherokee Ruby Mine, which is a few miles from Sheffield- http://www.cherokeerubymine.com/ Some amazing rubies have come out of there, like the 1070 ct. Cherokee Chief in 1993, and the Cherokee Princess a long time back, which was 600-something cts. I think. It is a very peaceful place and the folks who run it are the nicest and most helpful people you'll ever meet. :-) Completely native material, and plenty of other good stuff to be found, sapphires, garnet, ect., even Indian artifacts.
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TallTomSr |
9. RE: Rubies
Jan 24 2009, 10:07 PM EST
hey galI have figured that when i get these wings fixed I would take some time and go see some family back on your coast. When I do I will let you know and perhaps we can set up a trip to that mine with your husband and you can show me the ropes. tom Do you find this valuable? |
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