Emerald Village


"‚Joseph, lieber Joseph' Mine" at the North Carolina Mining Museum

Snapping Turtle Suns On Rock With Shiny Silver Mica Ruth at mine cavern entrance: 'open stope' [no timber for support] "That's 'Gneiss'"--Principal Rock Type In This Area ["Nice"] Cliff Swallow Nest At 2' Wide Smoky Quartz Vein In Mine Ceiling
30' Waterfall Flows From The Burnett Branch Stream Into The Mine Smoky Quartz, And Feldspar In The White Rock Called Pegmatite Wooden Bridge Over Drainage Ditch Bon Ami Mine: Rainbow Trout Now Swim Where Feldspar Was Mined

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Ruth's Travelogue

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