Moral of the story is, a fun way to test if your child is colorblind or not, is to go gem mining. They looked like brown/greyish stones to him. Scattered within his tray were all these ‘green emerald’ stones left.
After sifting through his bag of dirt at the flume, and picking all the colored gems out of it that he saw, he showed us his sifter saying he was finished. Funnily enough, we first realized our son’s colorblindness when we were sluicing for ‘seeded’ gems quite a few years ago in Pennsylvania. Emeralds are another fantastic gem found at other various mines in the region, but we thought we should stick with rubies and sapphires. The other major reason we decided on Sheffield was because our son, who was searching with us, is colorblind, and can’t see emeralds amongst the dirt. Having the potential of finding one of these treasures is one of the main reasons we chose Sheffield. These special gems, when cut in a cabochon shape, show an amazing star figure within the stone. The Sheffield Mine is one of the extremely few places in the world where spectacular star rubies and sapphires are unearthed. The pure corundum that appears red are rubies, while other colors are considered sapphires.īecause of the quality (and quantity) of the stones mined at Sheffield, it was once owned by famous Tiffany and Co.
Impure forms of corundum are used for producing abrasives, such as sandpaper. Corundum is the second hardest mineral next to diamonds. In the 1870’s mining companies began actively mining for corundum found at Sheffield and the surrounding areas. The Sheffield Mine is one of the oldest native mines in Macon County. When we visited, we chose to visit the Sheffield Mine to look for rubies and sapphires. This region is known as Gem Capital of the World because of the many different types of precious stones which are discovered there. Some of best places to mine for gems in North Carolina are of the areas in and around the town of Franklin.
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