Emerald - Crabtree Emerald Mine, North Carolina Location: Navajún

Location: Navajún

leading them to name it the state gemstone

and epithermal veins

It was not until 1974 that a specimen of Larimar was washed up on the beach by a gentleman named Miguel

but none lived past the Cretaceous Period (145

Emerald - Crabtree Emerald Mine, North Carolina Location: NavajúnThis emerald specimen is from the Crabtree Emerald Mine located in Spruce Pine, Mitchell County, North Carolina. This mine produced emerald specimens beginning in 1895 and remained open until the 1990s. The mine is now permanently closed. The mine shaft extended down for several hundred feet and is currently flooded. This mine is one of the only 2 emerald producing areas in the United States. The other also being located in North Carolina. Many of the