Here are a few of the gems you will find when gem mining at Bear Creek Adventures in Murphy North Carolina. Want to jazz your rough gems up? No problem! We also sell rock tumblers in our gift shop.
Click on gem photos below to learn more about each stone.
![topaz rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/topaz.jpg "Topaz - From the Greek word "Topazious", meaning to seek. November birth stone.")
![septarian rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/septarian.jpg "Septarian - Concretions containing cracks called "septaria". From the Latin word septum; "partition", refers to cracks in rock")
![selenite rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/selenite.jpg "Selenite - Also called "Satin Spar" which is a variety of the mineral gypsum that can be scratched by fingernails")
![pyrite rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pyrite.jpg "Pyrite - Better known as "fool's gold". Iron material that occurs in ore deposits.")
![garnet rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/garnet.jpg "Garnet - From the Latin word "Granatus", meaning seed-like. January birthstone.")
![citrine rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/citrine.jpg "Citrine - From the French word "Citron", meaning lemon.")
![chrysocolla rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/chrysocolla.jpg "Chrysocolla - A cyan mineral is a minor ore of copper. Greek chgrysos, "gold" and kolla, "glue", used to solder gold pieces in 315BCE.")
![amethyst rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/amethyst.jpg "Amethyst - From the Greek word "Amethustos", meaning sober. February birthstone.")
![amazonite rough gem](https://bearcreekminigolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/amazonite.jpg "Amazonite - Sometimes called "Amazon Stone", is a green variety of feldspar.")