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

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

@beng.akacaptainmothball9462

15 күн бұрын

And that ladies and gentlemen is what this is all about. Not the value of the rocks. The time and memories spent with the family. That's the real value.

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

We had a great time

$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.

@leisapertesis4206

18 күн бұрын

I've not really seen any gems yet, just quartz and fossils, which are fun to find but certainly not worth $2500. Best gem mining imo is between Highlands, NC and Bryson City, NC.

@Ghoosier

13 күн бұрын

There should be some gold in it for that price. Even just a couple nice nuggets make it more exciting and worthwhile

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.

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching we appreciate you

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Hey!!! Thanks so much for all the help! Literally couldn’t have done it without you

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Hey there! Are you guys still here? Message us on instagram

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

There it is

@paulafournier9996

9 сағат бұрын

Clean fun hobby for family money well spent if they love doing it besides it's there money stop being a hater I buy rocks too

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. 👍🏻😎👍🏻

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

❤️

What an awesome experience that was. Thanks for sharing!

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

❤️

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

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!❤️

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

We had a great time! Thanks for watching Carla

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 😂

It gives kids the experience they will always remember

My family love this place.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Same!! They are great, thanks so much for watching we appreciate you

What a beautiful family! Nice documentation. 👍

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

It was!! Jaycee was so excited

@corydudley2469

Ай бұрын

Star. Don't know where you live, but look into Calvert Cliffs in Southern Maryland. You would probably enjoy the Marine Museum.

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Aww that’s so sweet!!! Love memories like this. Thanks so much for watching we appreciate you

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

We love it! The girls especially love it during Halloween and get the Halloween bucket

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

They were! Thanks so much for watching

this is a great review thank you very much

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching we appreciate you

Very cool alot of work but fun for a few people

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Definitely for a few people that’s for sure 😂 ❤️ thanks for watching

Wow! What a HAUL!

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

That it was! Thanks so much for watching we appreciate you

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

We love the Halloween bucket they have around that time of year!

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

😂 ❤️

TY!

Very cool, thanks for the upload.

Ridiculous price to pay

@DMBFAN90

13 күн бұрын

Good thing it's not your money

Good!

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

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

😂 ❤️

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

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

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

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Hey there thanks so much

What a great family project

Love the video

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much glad you enjoyed

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.

Must. Go. Now. 😆

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Definitely some fun and work there Dennis 😂

This so cool!!! I love it ❤

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!

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

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

😂 ❤️ thanks for watching

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

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

Жыл бұрын

That’s how most, if not all the gem mines in the area do it. They buy from distributors and fill their buckets. Notice all the buckets in the area are filled with sand rather than dirt. Thanks as always!

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

@scottwolak6520

11 ай бұрын

They buy these crystals, fossils and rocks from mines and other places around the world, these buckets are referred to as a salted bucket. In this case the Pigeon Forge Gem Mine already knows what's in the bucket and it's value because they put these buckets together.

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

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.

Yup that's a Meg tooth

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? ;)

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

😂 ❤️

Lots of fun

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

It was Kim! Thanks so much for watching

I will be stopping there in future

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Hey!!!’ Thanks so much for all your help we couldn’t have done it without you

that was an amazing haul

So cool!!

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching we appreciate you

Might as well went to the mine in Arkansas

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching we appreciate you

This video rocks.

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!!!!

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks guys ❤️

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

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!

@cumberlandquiltchic1

Жыл бұрын

I assume they’d let ya do that…. Just a thought.

now this is something i want to do

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 !

@SmokyMountainFamily

Жыл бұрын

I have a lot around my wrist… I will do a vlog talking about them as soon as I get caught up on vlogs 😂 it would be a lot to type

@kylifekylife3195

11 ай бұрын

@@SmokyMountainFamily can’t wait !

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Hope you had a great trip!

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

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

3:41

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

A fool and his money are soon parted

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

They are valued well beyond what you pay. Rock shop owners are the people that typically buy these for the resell value

@R2D242D

3 күн бұрын

​@SmokyMountainFamily could you do a video showing they have more value then 2500?

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

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

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

@cordeliameyer6734

5 ай бұрын

They didn’t I love down there it’s 1k

@cordeliameyer6734

5 ай бұрын

And it says in the back it’s 750 must be cheaper then but a,so they have no idea about all the crystals idk why they bought

@SmokyMountainFamily

2 ай бұрын

That's incorrect. We also live here. The gem mine invited us to come do a video to feature their new $2.500 barrel. At the time this video was released the new $2500 barrel had only been available a couple weeks.

@JackpotMike77

19 күн бұрын

It's literally 100 dollars in rocks. For 2500 you could have spent all day out west at the real gem show and got museum specimens. Rather that worthless items stuffed in sand. That amethyst cluster is 20 bux max at any roadside stand...

@jcmjcm1945

18 күн бұрын

​@@SmokyMountainFamily Oh so because you featured it they prob. *in most cases* prefilled it with items.

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.

@SmokyMountainFamily

2 ай бұрын

Nothing was broken at the end of our haul.

@breelewis7155

17 күн бұрын

Those shells look to be like the souvenir basket of shells we have in our beach town Souvenir shops. Really no value to them. Airheads are provably Reproduction , no value

Anyone else saw the places TikTok and Came watch the video

Who’s here from tik tok

@SmokyMountainFamily

10 ай бұрын

LOL

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.

@fashionphazeboutique

11 ай бұрын

I agree. Seems like such a waste of money for such little reward. But that's the climate we live in. It surprises me to see shark teeth in the same Barrell along with many of the rocks. This is a Barrell of runoff buckets they didn't sell. Shame on Pigeon Forge Gem Mine...

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

@user-nf5zr7nf8s

11 ай бұрын

Yes they are idiots why not go on a cruise or go to Disney or something but I guess he needs those rocks for his head, the gift certificates I can buy myself, this is just stupid

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

What a rip off

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

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

Thanks again!

@Kentucky-and-beyond

11 ай бұрын

@@SmokyMountainFamily pleasure is all mine

stop with the music plz

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 KZread see this is why yankee and the south is a better channel real talk just being honest because there being there self

@SmokyMountainFamily

11 ай бұрын

We appreciate your input. Thanks for watching!

@squatchlandadventures7654

10 ай бұрын

If you don't like it, don't watch... Stop the hate and focus on your videos.... smh

@karenfromNH

5 ай бұрын

YITS are grifters

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