Does anyone know anything about the worth of rough from the Crabtree mines in North Carolina?
The Crabtree deposit is about played out and abandoned, AFAIK. I think I have a small piece of very nice color around here somewhere. You’d probably have some trouble proving provenance (some people would probably be interested solely because of where it came from), so I would value a Crabtree stone just like any other emerald…depending on size, transparency/translucence,
color, etc. A 1 ct stone would value anywhere between $30 and $5000, depending on the above.
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Thank you.
Interesting! I have some very impressive stones from there that I have researched, extracted from the rough by following procedures I found here and on other reliable sources. I have an emerald cluster that I’ve been very careful with that I am totally smitten with. Thanks for the info!
I have held a 6x45mm natural terminated and root from the Crabtree Mine, and it was valued at 3.2 million .
The reason nothing is coming out of the mine is, the owner was killed in a cave-in at the Hiddenite mine.
The specimen I have is a chunk of matrix about 2.5" X 2.5" X 2.5" dotted with smallish emeralds. The person I got my specimen from is a VERY VERY trusted source. He said these specimens came out of the Crabtree mine around mid1980’s.
I do not plan on extracting the emeralds out of the matrix, but plan ok keeping it as is in my collection. Some of the certified stones I have, I will sell. But this emerald in matrix is staying with me till I pass it on in my will.
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