Rebecca M.
9/15/2025
Emerald Village is located in Spruce Pine, NC. It is a hidden gem that I highly recommend visiting. The campus is large so you can visit some attractions or all. I opted to tour the mine, visit...
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331 McKinney Mine Rd
Spruce Pine, NC 28777
Just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 1 hour from Asheville, NC, is Emerald Village, North Carolina’s #1 gem mining attraction! Go underground in a real mine at the NC Mining Museum. See old mining equipment and displays, and enjoy the splashing waterfall! Tour the Company Store, re-creating an old mining town. Visit Discovery Mill, with 10 levels of displays, including the Music Museum, the Homestead Museum, the Blue Ridge model railroad display, and gift and snack shops. Spend time at our spectacular Gemstone Mine where you’ll have “buckets” of fun searching for real gems. Find colorful gems and keep them all! We also offer custom gem cutting, jewelry making, Gold Panning, night time Black Light mine tours, digging for minerals and digging for emeralds at the world-famous Crabtree Emerald Mine! You’ll have a gem of a day! Open April 1st through October 31st.
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Jen O.
9/25/2021
Great customer service! We were in the gift shop with our two dogs and someone came in and essentially starting bullying the two women at the desk about wearing a mask. He was flippantly and...
Knightlyshadow1234 1.
6/12/2023
This mine was an actual working mine. It felt to me like the rock that you sorted was less seeded with gemstone. On the other hand, that gave it a more realistic feel. We purchased in Emerald...
Amanda E.
10/17/2021
We booked back a few months ago for the black light tour, we had the idea that we would be going into a mining cave and seeing all these different glowing lights. Sadly it wasn't anything like...
Charissa H.
10/30/2017
My husband and I had the BEST TIME!!! Not only is the area itself just stunning, the staff at Emerald Village were awesome as well! We had great chats with the woman in the Mine gift shop and with...
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