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Pigeon Forge Gem Mine Inc
2865 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, TN 37863
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Who We Are
Who We Are
The Pigeon Forge Gem Mine is located next to Three Bears General Store
Which has been a landmark on the Parkway for over three decades. Our Mine is recreation of the old Ruby and Sapphire mines that were in the Cowee Valley in North Carolina in the mid - 1800's. The miners would divert a stream onto a flume and dig buckets of dirt form the diverted stream bed and then wash away the dirt and clay using screened boxes in the flume - with luck they would find a few stones after a day of digging. Some areas proved better than others, but by the 1930's they knew no one was going to get rich mining for the Ruby's and Sapphires, although the town of Franklin NC located in the Cowee valley are refers to themselves as the Gem Capital of the World. The remaining mines were open to the public so they could mine for a price.
Our mine
unlike the mines we are fashioned after, have buckets with gemstones form all over the world, including Franklin, NC - and its in sand instead of clay and dirt. So a bucket or two will bring you more gemstones than the old miners would find in a week.
Pigeon Forge Gem Mine
Outside Flumes You Can Purchase Buckets Starting at $15 and up
We Have Gemstones and Fossils in Our Buckets
After Minig You Can Bring in to Be Assayed
And we will have a free stone identification card or if you like we can cut gemstone. And set in silver or gold medal .our Medals consists of rings,ear rings and pendants , or we can just cut the stone to the size you would like
If You Have Mined at Other Mines We Will Be More Glad Check Out Your Gemstones and Cut the Ones of Yours That Our Mines Cuts . And Set in Our Medal Also
We Also Have a Free Fossil & Rock Museum Inside Our Giftshop
We Sale Rough Stones and Geodes Inside Our Gift Shop
We Have a Big Selection of Books We Sale on Rocks and Fossil
We Have an on Sight Jeweler to Have Mountings to You in a Timely Manner
We Have a "New Age" Crystal and Healing Stones Room
We Have Fun Educational Rocks and Fossils Bagged with Information of the Stone or Fossil Inside
We Have Rock Tumblers
We Have to Go Buckets for Sale
Variety of Gingersnaps and More Costume Jewelry
We Are One of the Businesses the Collector Board Game "Smoky Mountain-Oply" for Relay for Life All $30 Goes to Relay for Life
And Finally We Sale Childrens Books, Dinosaurs, and More Educational Toys and Gifts
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General Info
Payment Types
All Major Cards
Hours
Monday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Tuesday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Wednesday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Friday:
10:00am - 8:00pm
Saturday:
10:00am - 8:00pm
Sunday:
10:00am - 5:30pm
Additional Information:
Our closing time if based on business. During the week we run one shift and on Friday and Saturdays we run two shifts.
About Us
Here you can mine for your own gems in our flume area. You can have your finds cut and polished and mounted into Jewelry. Visit our FREE Rock and Fossil Museum. Check out our General Store which includes our Assay Station, Rock Shop, Fossil Shop, Jewelry Counter, Book Center, and unusual gifts made from rocks and fossils.