Might have to head over there some time. Ran across little clear pill bottle with the old woman’s crystals she picked up there.
We all used to go corundum ‘mining’ in Franklin North Carolina. Cowee Valley.
Buy buckets of dirt for a dollar and wash em in a screen, mill race of water. Find rubies, garnets, sapphire, rhodolite, etc.
The old woman loved that, I went back a couple years ago.
Epa or their local enviros cracked down on them for all the sediment delivery back into the streams. Only a couple remain open after engineering some holding ponds to abate the silt.
