1 Box 263,Canton, NC 28721. Find Sapphires, moonstone, zircon. They will now allow hillside digging.
Some mines have their own web pages.
We spent a full day at the site, learned a lot from Pete, the proprietor, and came away with nearly 40 lilac sapphires. Only 2 are suitable for cutting, and all are very small. I d been steered to Cherokee by a fellow on the Internet. They provide buckets of native dirt, and you sluice. We found a lot of nice little pieces of sillmanite, and some other gemmy minerals.