I went gem mining in Boone for $14.99 bucket and it had a 3.2 carat emerald in it. I had to go to 5 jewelers before I found one that could cut a rock that big. Estimated value $900

My granddaughter loved this!

Your kids will always remember the fun adventures. Thanks for sharing

Awesome haul, looked like a whole lotta fun, thanx for taking us along.

Good to see some Smokey Mountains content creators out there.

Love this place. I brought home two 5 gallon and a gallon bucket 🪣 for Easter for my grandchildren to do. I bought the sand buckets and sifters at Dollar tree filled up their buckets and off they went sifting. It was hard to keep grandmom’s hands off the rocks as she was putting them in the buckets. These are for the babies too. Lol. We go down every DeC and I go there every year!!

I just love watching this!

$2500 for a seeded 55 gallon barrel? I certainly don't begrudge them the fun and experience for them and the kids. It seems everyone had a great time.

Hey SMF - Karen here. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be in your video. We had so much fun!!!

We always love stopping at this place when we go to Pigeon Forge….its become a tradition. But we go for the lesser buckets around $30-60 dollars and still get ALOT of great gems and fossils.

I did a 1k barrel down at mason mountain mine in Franklin NC for my 30th birthday i gave a few things away cuz i couldn't ship it all home lol. Even after giving some away i had like 200lbs shipped and 50 or so in just ruby/sapphire that i brought with me on the plane home 😅 getting through security was hilarious 😂

Looks like a lot of fun.

Nice haul….y’all are gonna have an awesome rock garden😊….thanks for sharing

For those concerned about the money….perhaps the family was OFFERED the opportunity to record a video by the gem mine business for a substantially lower cost or perhaps even for free considering the amount of advertising the gem mine would receive from views.

Hey guys, long time followers, Bill and Julie here. We are in town for the next week or so, would love to meet you guys. Our girls love watching your girls.

Keep up the great videos, love the old gem mine . Personally if ya got the money to buy the barrel good for ya and have fun. 👍🏻😎👍🏻

Wow! Those were some beautiful finds!! Would like to see what you all do with all of those rocks.

What an awesome experience that was. Thanks for sharing!

It gives kids the experience they will always remember

Definitely looks like a meg tooth !! My dream find !!

Eric and Brittany, all of those are soooooo beautiful! Really enjoyed your awesome video! Looks like y'all all had fun. Love y'all and God Bless You!❤️

My family love this place.

this is a great review thank you very much

Awesome video great family time ❤️ all the years I have come never done the gem mine but that’s about to change 😂 just fun to see what you find.

Great video guys. Went there last time we were in pigeon forge. Had a lot of fun and found some cool stuff. Yall stay safe out there

SMF!!! I have "never, ever" done the gem mine before ... never have done a gem mine anywhere! Another great video featuring the whole family ... priceless! Question ... what will you do with all the gems/stones/fossils/arrowheads, etc., that you mined?

One of the things I love and remember about my grandpa was his appreciation of rocks. We collected, polished and decorated with rocks big and small! So many memories of rock shops in Gatlinburg. I bet you both remember the one on the end of the parkway by the Riverhouse.

My son wants to do it now 😅 Super neat to watch!

Wow! What a HAUL!

Good video, your was having to much fun, the girls were having lots of fun too 😊

The big bertha bucket of gem mining! Glad the girls got a good pretzel and cheese break, they deserved it! That is lot's of work lol. If y'all do a give away we will take the 100 dollar gift certificate to Sawyers hahaha. This was a awesome guys

Very cool, thanks for the upload.

Good!

Very cool alot of work but fun for a few people

TY!

This is one of my favorite stops when I'm up that way!

Hello y’all. The Gatlinburg Hussey sent me🎉🎉🎉

Those people that helped should have at least been given a rock 😂

Love the video

What a great family project

WOW..............................

This so cool!!! I love it ❤

Heyyyy Elizabeth here! Still can’t believe I got in this video

What a beautiful family! Nice documentation. 👍

also loved that they charge $25 a carot to cut gem peices.

Just rocks. I want the diamonds and rubies. Gold as well. Something worth money.

My parents took me & my little brother to these places all the time when we were little. We live close to Pigeon Forge, so we were down there very often. We played a TON of putt-putt & did a lot of gem mining lol.

Yup that's a Meg tooth

now this is something i want to do

Ridiculous price to pay

Love the surprise of what you find here. I bet that’s the most you’ve ever paid to work so hard!😂Did you have any jewelry made from any of the stones? Loved this guys! Looks like you all had a great time and involving subscribers was so sweet of y’all! Thanks for another great, entertaining video!

that was an amazing haul

We went there today we got the $60 bucket. It was fun all of y’all should go sometime.

I will be stopping there in future

that looked like fun and work but the girls got some great looking stones

You all rock! 😂 Seriously that was really cool. Your going to have to start a rock garden.

went ther back in may and got some good minerals. had a few aprased and was not disappointed at all.

Glad you had fun. Good looking finds. Love that Jaycee got the tooth. Those arrow heads were beautiful. Btw, did the price include a forklift to load your finds into the Jeep? ;)

This video rocks.

Might as well went to the mine in Arkansas

That was the price of my entire family trip . What a rip

Where does this store dig all this stuff up from? What area?

Looks like a lot of planted stuff. A shark tooth in the mountains?

that was awesome. I did not know they did anything like that. What in the world will you do with all those rocks now? That’s pretty need to get all the gift certificates . Thanks for sharing three interesting.

This family was asked to feature this bucket. So as well know with features to make it look better which the company did not do as it looked poor is they prefilled it with as i can say with certainty 110% unless you count Noah's flood half that would not be found in TN.

You know how there’s Bears Meets Food with eating challenges? Y’all did the equivalent with the gem mining challenge! 😂 very cool and very fun! I think a family reunion or large group ciuld go in and do that and split the $ and have a great day! Fun video! You’re gonna get 1M hits with this one!

So cool!!

Might not be worth 2500 but what price do you put on quality time and family memories.

Lots of fun

Would love name of the song playing at intro ... thanks for sharing your gem experience...we have talked of doing this when we visit so this is inspiring .😊

Brittany I am just curious what your wrist tattoo”s say ?? I’m would think they don’t sell many of the $2500 buckets 😮 ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO SMF !

It looked like so much fun, we just got back from spending 5 nights in pigeon forge

Ok. Next year’s vacation, go to the William Holland School of Lapidary Arts in Young Harris Georgia and you can take classes to learn how to cut those stones into jewelry.

Were does the mine company get these different gems from

Love it when the workers mispronounce names of minerals. Like what

U actually paid 2500$! Wow. That’s a lot Fun though I love rocks

Must. Go. Now. 😆

I dont understand why people are so worried about how yall spend your money that you both work very hard for!!! Yall keep doing yall!!!!

Meg tooth root…

Curious what you did will all those gems?!! Some really nice ones.

A fool and his money are soon parted

Would like to see a part 2: what these “gems” are worth video..

3:41

I coulda got you a heck of a showcase 10x better quality for half the price.

Anyone else saw the places TikTok and Came watch the video

those are not mossy rocks they are geodes crack them open

Not worth 2500. That just crazy if people actually pay that!!!

Not worth 2500 dollars. Hope y'all really didn't pay that much.

Who’s here from tik tok

Does that mean you paid $2500. For these rocks?

Ok....Im trying to be objective here. What is the end game here? What do you do with the rocks that you bought? I mean after all, you DID buy them. I cant see spending that much money on rocks unless you are going to make jewelry out of them or sell them. Im sure it was fun and all of that, but you could spend a lot less and still enjoy your family time. I mean lets face it, your average vacationer couldnt afford that. But I did watch the whole video so that will put a little change in your pocket.

I don’t understand why you toss around shells and arrowheads like they have no value. You dropped a huge rock on some perfectly beautiful shells.

What a rip off

Does your wife have “Right” and “left” tattooed on her wrist?😂

stop with the music plz

If u payed that ur on something anything for views just be honest man

Sorry it's just not a good deal. The average person should stay away from this

Never been on this channel before, but this was so much cringe. Many families have a $2,500 budget for their vacation.

Please stop doing KZfaq see this is why yankee and the south is a better channel real talk just being honest because there being there self

Lol. You can find REAL crystals in Arkansas at the crystal mines 😅 . $2,500 u gotta be kidding me 😅😅😅