In Western North Carolina, rockhounds have plenty of opportunities to dig for gems, if they don’t mind getting a little dirty ...

NORTH CAROLINA GEMS. Give this article. May 2, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 2, 1886, Page 3 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Residents have a saying in Spruce Pine, that a piece of their home is in tech across the globe. But could geopolitical tensions hurt their mining tradition, and their lucrative quartz business?

The genesis of mining gold in North Carolina. We can trace the first instance of a documented gold discovery in the U.S. to 1799 when a young boy discovered a huge, 17-pound gold nugget during a ...