Pigeon Forge Gem Mine Service List

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.

Services

• 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