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BUCK CREEK Big Shaft Portal Near Buck Creek (click on pictures to enlarge) Buck Creek Almandite garnet fragments Corundum in matrix and pieces CORUNDUM KNOB Hwy-64 near Glade Gap (click on pictures to enlarge) Scattered ultramafic rocks on corundum knob (click on pictures to enlarge) Ruby in smaragdite   Ruby in edenite-amphibolite I made the following cabochons from material collected from this area. (cab pictures do not enlarge): Click here to see more cabochon pictures from the Buck Creek Mafic-Ultramafic Complex ATTENTION: On April 7, 2014, I was made aware that the forest service had amended its North Carolina rockhounding policies. The new policies are listed on the following web page: http://www.fs.usda.gov/activity/nfsnc/recreation/rocks-minerals/?recid=48112&actid=59 As you can see, full size picks and shovels are now considered mechanical and no longer permissible to use. BEHR CORUNDUM MINE Lake Chatuge at Behr Mine (early March 2003) (click on pictures to enlarge) Lake Chatuge 2006 Corundum (Behr specimens courtesy of Bill Booth) Attention: It has been brought to my attention that property owners adjacent to this section of shoreline on Lake Chatuge no longer wish to have rockhounds access it from their properties that extend to the high water mark.