Alexander County, NC
May 12, 2008
What a gem
“Out of the thousands of emeralds that this mine has produced, the museum's emerald is easily in the top 10 percent ever found.”
This unpolished emerald crystal has been installed permanently in the Birthstones exhibit of the Wertz Gallery at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland. via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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