Get Back to the Past - Gem Mining at the Runaway Mountain Coaster
Get Back to the Past - Gem Mining at the Runaway Mountain Coaster
Get Back To The Past – Gem Mining at the Runaway Mountain Coaster
If you have plans to experience gem mining, and if you're in Branson, you don't need to go far because you can enjoy it at Branson Mountain Mining.
As the longest gem mine in the Ozarks, it sits near the banks of Fall Creek. What you need to do is to choose the kind of gems you would like to mine. Fossils, gems, and much more are available at Branson Mountain Mining. This is one of the best activities in the area to experience after enjoying a thrilling ride on the Branson roller coaster.
Once you are ready for gem mining, head into the gift shop and get the bag of paydirt right. This is your chance to see fossils and gemstones. We have options for you! After you've purchased the paydirt, head out to our custom-built sluice, where you can sift for treasures from your bag.
Everything you find in the bag is yours to keep! Or buy the paydirt bags and take them home to sift through at your leisure. Either way, you are in for a treasure every time at Branson Mountain Mining.
Hunting for exciting gems and crystals at Branson Mountain Mining can be rewarding, even if you don't find a precious gem. Many recreational gem hunters enjoy spending time outdoors, learning about geology, and socializing with other gem hunters.
Others are more goal-oriented; they look for their own birthstones or attractive gems to make into jewelry. Some collectors want to find as many types of gems and rocks as possible to catalog and display.
There are many ways to get involved in gem mining, from fee digs to staking your mining claim. You must first learn more about geology before you can achieve geologic glory. You can't just go outside and start poking around in the rocks, hoping to find specific types of gems and crystals.
Minerals formed in the Earth's mantle can reach the surface over millions of years due to massive geologic effects like tectonic plate upheaval. Deep rocks can be brought to the surface by earthquakes and volcanoes. At the same time, wind and water erosion gradually wear down surface soils to reveal buried bedrock. Humans can also reveal bedrock, so looking for gems near tunnels, railroads, or construction sites can be rewarding.
There is a different way to find each gem in the world. Australian sapphires are found in a specific area with alluvial deposits. They're scattered across the ground of gravel under the soil. Gem hunters dig through the gravel ground and filter the rocks by shaking them in water in a pan. Sapphires settle to the bottom of the pan because they are heavier than most rocks. Any sapphires on top will be visible when the pan is flipped over and emptied.
After you have enjoyed the thrilling ride on the Branson roller coaster, don't miss visiting Branson Mountain Mining. There, you will find tens of thousands of different types of minerals. Even though the varieties of gems are fewer, they are created under conditions so diverse as to be nearly infinite.
The hardness, clarity, crystalline structure, and color of gems and minerals are all affected by pressure, heat, location, other minerals and impurities, water, and later geologic forces. That is why they are so uncommon.
At Branson Mountain Mining, we carefully select and create our unique blend of gemstones, crystals, and fossils from around the world, which we combine into unique concentrations of mining dirt to represent each "theme" they offer. These beautiful earth elements come in various sizes and shapes, natural and enhanced, just like our options.
Even within the same theme, no two mixes are identical. Your treasure may include natural and enhanced semi-precious gems such as amethyst, quartz, rose quartz, citrine, emeralds, obsidian, crystal points, jaspers, agates, calcites, arrowheads, shells, fossils, and many more not listed!
Your mining adventure begins with a bag of gem mining dirt and a screened wooden box at Branson Mountain Mining's custom running water trough. Scoop the mixture onto the screen, then lower your screen box into the water, shaking the tray to separate the mining dirt from the gems. As the gems appear, you will be amazed.
When you're done panning at the water trough, take your gems to a table to sort and continue identifying your gemstones with the specimen identification chart that comes with the package. Then, you can take your finds home to add to your collection, start a new one, or simply admire them for years.
Go gem panning at Branson Mountain Mining Adventure Park after an enjoyable ride with the Branson roller coaster. You will surely bring home good memories from this unique adventure, especially if you find many semi-precious stones, even if you think they are of little value.
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