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Our mailing address is 41 Cherokee Mine Road, Franklin North Carolina 28734. How about you send us $50.00 to compensate for the four wasted buckets, which equates to two (2) Adult Admissions, and we will forget about having to clean up the rest of the mess. We also could have charged you for the wasted buckets of gem ore. The basic price for admission is 15 for most ages (15-60 years (10 all others)) and includes two native or ‘seeded’ buckets of dirt, a seat at the flume, and supplies needed to find the rubies and sapphires within the dirt. We would have been well within our rights to invite you to leave with no refund. The Sheffield Mine is open from the beginning of April to the end of October. In spite of all of these actions, which were in violation of the Safety Orientation which A) printed on the back of the Liability Waivers your party signed, and B) Clearly posted at the Office where you checked in, we merely "Scolded" your grandson. While we had to take our attention away from other customers to clean up the messes that your party caused, The adults in your party stood idly by and watched, and contributed nothing. Then, they also dumped mud into our utility cart, which both we and other paying customers use to transport filled buckets, sluice screens etc. These children were also dropping empty buckets into the sluice as well as the complimentary seat cushion loaned to our customers. Today, it is a fully operational Natural Ruby and Sapphire Gem Mine, open to the Public. Second, your grandson and the other children were also throwing rocks into the sluice, which is a disturbance to other miners at best, and a hazard to miners downstream. This mine was owned and mined by Tiffanys during the late 1800s. Your grandson was overturning the Pre-Filled buckets, which we provide to paying customers who do not choose the Dig-Your-Own option. However, your grandson was not playing in dirt. The rocks here contain natural gemstones like rubies.
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#SHEFFIELD RUBY MINE FULL#
Hi, This is Matt, and my wife Lisa and I own the Cherokee Ruby and Sapphire Mine.įirst, in the interest of full disclosure, there is more than sufficient dirt for children to play in in this area. Sheffield Mine is a gemstone mine, which means there are nor ores or other rocks of industrial interest.